From: alex
Message: 24333
Date: 2003-07-08
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From: "m_iacomi" <m_iacomi@...>
>
> Italian "scuotere" is to be related to Latin "excutere" `to shake`
> composed from "ex-" and "quatere" (related with "quatio"). The form
> involved in Southern Italian "(s)cutulare", Sardinian "iscutullare"
> and Romanian "scutura(re)" is the VL version "*excutulare" of the
> same verb you will find in your dictionary at "excutio".
>
> Marius Iacomi
For your argumentation you have this:
a scoate = to pull out Cf DEX < Latin *excotere ( from "excutere")
Now, " a scoate" (to pull out) is not " a scutura" ( to shake) and I am
afraid none of them has something with Latin "inheritance" to do as well
as "scurt" (short)( cf. DEX > Latin *exxcurtus) has nothing to do with
Latin "curtus" on a inherited line.
Second, where are all these forms to find at all? In medieval Latin or
where? The word "quatere" is not to find too in my etym. dict. and if it
would be it will be related to "quater"=the fourth, but not to
"quatio:". I don't guess one will can begin anything with a root in
latin as "quat-", maybe an "quatt-" n asymilation of "quatr-".
Can it be these are linguistic(?) thoughts for trying to explain curious
forms in Romance?
alex