Reconstruction:Latin/contigire

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.

Latin

Etymology

From contingere, apparently rebuilt around preterite inflections such as contigit.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /konteˈjire/

Verb

*contigīre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)

to happen

Descendants

Catalan: acontegir (Valencian)
⇒ Navarro-Aragonese: contexer
Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
- Galician: acontecer
- Portuguese: acontecer
Old Spanish: contir, cuntir ⇒ contesçer
- ⇒ Spanish: acontecer

References

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “acontecer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 39