Cognate Set 855 – Meaning: big

IE-CoR reference form:
grandis
IE-CoR reference language:
Latin
Ideophonic:
no
Parallel derivation:
no
Justification:
Romance lexemes continuing Latin grandis 'full-grown, large, great', further etymology obscure (Meyer-Lübke 1935:327 no. 3842, Ernout & Meillet 1985:281, de Vaan 2008:270).
Found in clades:
Italic
Revised by:
Matthew Scarborough
Found in 1 clade by 15 lexemes.
Language Lexeme Native script Phonetic Phonemic Notes
141   Catalan gran ɡran ɡran
136   French grand ɡʁɑ̃ ɡʁɑ̃
129   Italian grande ˈɡrande ˈɡrande Also means 'great'.
131   Ladin gran ˈɡraŋ
144   Portuguese grande ˈɡɾɐ̃ðɨ ˈɡɾɐ̃ðɨ
143   Spanish grande ˈɡɾan̪de ˈɡɾande
137   Walloon grand ɡʁã ɡʁã
130   Friulian grant ˈɡrant ˈɡrant Msg., fsg. grande, mpl. grancj, fpl. grandis.
135   Anglo-Norman grant
139   Franco-Provençal gran ˈɡɾɒ̃ ˈɡrɔ̃
142   Old Spanish grande ˈɡɾande
138   Old Occitan gran -t is often added to the end of this
140   Old Catalan gran ɡɾan ɡɾan
145   Portuguese: Brazilian grande
132   Milanese grànt ɡrant
References
  • Ernout, Alfred and Meillet, Antoine: 281
    S.v. Lat. grandis 'grand'. The etymology of this word is unknown.
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm: 327
    S.v. 3842 Lat. grandis 'groß'.
  • de Vaan, Michiel: 270
    S.v. Lat. grandis 'grown up, big, tall'. Etymology unclear. Previous proposals in Walde-Hofmann (1938-1954) to connect Lat. grandis to a root *gʷʰrnd- (Ancient Greek βρένθος 'pride' OCS grǫdь 'breast') dismissed on the basis of poor semantic comparison.