Reconstruction:Latin/barra

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Uncertain; possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).^[1][2]

Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *barō (“bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”), related to Latin forus (“plank”).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarra/

*barra f (oblique *barram); first declension (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. bar
2. barrier

• Aragonese: barra
• Asturian: barra
• → Basque: barra
• Catalan: barra
• Galician: barra
• Italian: barra
• Occitan: barra
• Old French: barre
  • Middle French: barre
    • French: barre
      • → English: barre
      • → Romanian: bară
      • → Vietnamese: ba-rê
  • → Middle English: barre, barr, bar, bare
    • English: bar (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ Yola: baaree, baree
• Papiamentu: bara
• Portuguese: barra
• Sicilian: barra
• Spanish: barra