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.

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

• IPA^(key): /konteˈjire/

*contigīre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)

1. to happen

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

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