L’italien pour qui parle catalan
Vous en savez déjà plus que vous ne le pensez. Sur les 2 264 mots courants de Cognata, 1 699 ont un équivalent apparenté en catalan : le même mot, remodelé par des siècles de parole. Partez de ceux-là, apprenez les changements réguliers qui relient les deux langues et gardez les faux amis à l’œil.
- ont une même source
- 75 %
- hérités des deux côtés
- 29 %
- à apprendre tels quels
- 25 %
2 264 mots comparés
Les mots que vous connaissez déjà
Des mots courants dont les formes en catalan et en italien viennent de la même source.
Les lois phonétiques entre les deux
Des changements réguliers qui transforment un mot en catalan en son équivalent en italien : apprenez-en un, il sert pour des centaines de mots.
- Stressed short E breaks into iee [ɛ] (no diphthong); i next to a palatal (llit)ie (open syllable); e (closed)PETRAMpedrapietra
- Stressed short O breaks into ue / uo / euo [ɔ] (no diphthong)uo (open syllable); o (closed)NOVUMnounuovo
- French stressed free A becomes ea (kept)a (kept)MAREmarmare
- French fronts long U to [y]u [u] (kept)u [u] (kept)LŪNAMllunaluna
- AU becomes oooAURUMororo
- French vowel + nasal becomes a nasal voweloral vowel; final n after the stress lost (pa, vi)vowel + n keptPĀNEMpapane
- Spanish initial F- becomes h- (silent)f- keptf- keptFĪLIUM (fr. from nom. FĪLIUS)fillfiglio
- Voiceless stops between vowels softenb (v) d g; p t c again at the end of a word (amic, agut)mostly kept (p t c)VĪTAMvidavita
- C before E and Is (c, ç); between vowels lost, or u at the end (veí, deu)tʃ (c)CAELUMcelcielo
- French CA becomes chaca keptca keptCABALLUMcavallcavallo
- Initial I- (J-) and G before E, Ij, g [ʒ]gi, g [dʒ]IOCUMjocgioco
- B and V merge in Spanishmerged as in Spanish (Central Catalan); v kept in Balearic and parts of Valenciav kept; B between vowels → vVĪNUMvivino
- Germanic W- becomes gu- / g-gu- ([gw] before a, o; [g] before e, i)gu- [gw]Germanic *WERRAguerraguerra
- L before a consonant becomes ul kept (altre, falç)l kept (altro, caldo)ALTERUMaltrealtro
- CTit, t (the i absorbed by the vowel: nit, fet)ttNOCTEMnitnotte
- L + yodll [ʎ]gli [ʎʎ]FOLIAMfullafoglia
- C'L inside a wordll [ʎ]cchi [kkj]OCULUMullocchio
- CL-, PL-, FL- at the start of a wordcl- pl- fl- (kept)chi- pi- fi-CLĀVEMclauchiave
- NN, GN and N + yodny [ɲ], also from NN (any)nn kept; GN, NI → gn [ɲɲ]ANNUManyanno
- S + consonant at the start of a wordes-s- (kept; takes lo, gli)STELLAMestrellastella
- French loses S before a consonant (^)s kepts keptFESTAMfestafesta
- Italian assimilates clusterssimplified: pt → t, mn → n; x → ix [ʃ]assimilated: tt, ss, ss, nnSEPTEMsetsette
- Final vowelsdropped except -a (said [ə]); -e kept after clusters-o, -a, -e keptLUPUMlloplupo
- Plurals: -s or -i-s, -es (from the accusative)-i, -e (from the nominative)LUPŌS (acc.) / LUPĪ (nom.)llopslupi
- -TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà-tat-tàCĪVITĀTEMciutatcittà
- -TIŌNEM: learned -ción, inherited -zón-ció (learned); inherited -ó (raó, tió)-zione (learned); inherited -zzone or -gioneRATIŌNEMraóragione
- -ĀRIUM: -ero, -ier, -aio-er, -era-aio, -aia (Tuscan); also -aro, -iereCABALLĀRIUMcavallercavaliere
- Adverbs in -mente / -ment-ment-menteCLĀRĀ MENTEclaramentchiaramente
- Single L between vowels: lost in Portuguese, r in Romanianl keptl keptFĪLUMfilfilo
- Portuguese loses single N between vowelsn kept; lost where it became final (mà; see final-n)n keptLĀNAMllanalana
- Romanian turns velars into labialsit/t, ix [ʃ], ny; qu, gutt, ss, gn; qu, gu (assimilated or kept)OCTŌvuitotto
- Romanian T, D, S before i become ț, z, șt, d, s keptt, d, s keptDĪCEREdirdire
- Catalan drops -n at the end of a wordlost (pa, vi); back in the plural (pans, vins)n kept, final vowel kept (pane, vino)PĀNEMpapane
Les faux amis à surveiller
mare (Catalan) signifie « mother » · mare (Italien) signifie « sea »
Coincidence. Catalan mare is MĀTREM worn down (as pare is PATREM); Italian mare is Latin MARE 'sea'. Romanian mare is 'sea' too — and also 'big'.
Les mots à apprendre tels quels
Des mots courants pour lesquels l’italien a suivi son propre chemin.