Etymograph

English

Old Italian

Old + Italian, on the pattern of Old English

A compound of Old + Italian

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

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Proto-Germanic *aldaz ‘grown-up’

Proto-West Germanic *ald

Old English ald ‘old’

Middle English old ‘elderly’

English Old

Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 ‘land of bulls’

Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ

Latin Italia ‘Italy’

Medieval Latin Italiānus

Middle English Italian

English Italian

Today it means

name The continuum of languages derived from Vulgar Latin spoken in the Italian peninsula between circa 960 and the establishment of the Accademia della Crusca in 1582.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Italian

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