Le roumain pour qui parle catalan
Vous en savez déjà plus que vous ne le pensez. Sur les 2 264 mots courants de Cognata, 1 312 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.
Règle votre combinaison sur catalan → roumain et ouvre les mots apparentés.
- ont une même source
- 58 %
- hérités des deux côtés
- 12 %
- à apprendre tels quels
- 42 %
2 264 mots comparés
Les mots que vous connaissez déjà
Des mots courants dont les formes en catalan et en roumain viennent de la même source.
Les lois phonétiques entre les deux
Des changements réguliers qui transforment un mot en catalan en son équivalent en roumain : 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; ia before a or ă (piatră); fused with a preceding d, t (zece, țară)PETRAMpedrapiatră
- Stressed short O breaks into ue / uo / euo [ɔ] (no diphthong)o; oa [o̯a] when a or e follows (poartă, moarte)NOVUMnounou
- French stressed free A becomes ea (kept)a (kept); â before n (câine)MAREmarmare
- French fronts long U to [y]u [u] (kept)u [u] (kept)LŪNAMllunalună
- AU becomes ooau (kept); ău unstressedAURUMoraur
- French vowel + nasal becomes a nasal voweloral vowel; final n after the stress lost (pa, vi)vowel + n kept; vowel raised before n (pâine, mână, timp)PĀNEMpapâine
- Spanish initial F- becomes h- (silent)f- keptf- keptFĪLIUM (fr. from nom. FĪLIUS)fillfiu
- Voiceless stops between vowels softenb (v) d g; p t c again at the end of a word (amic, agut)kept (p t c)VĪTAMvidavită
- C before E and Is (c, ç); between vowels lost, or u at the end (veí, deu)tʃ (c)CAELUMcelcer
- French CA becomes chaca keptca kept (câ-, că- in Romanian spelling)CABALLUMcavallcal
- Initial I- (J-) and G before E, Ij, g [ʒ]j [ʒ] (joc); g [dʒ] before e, i (ger)IOCUMjocjoc
- B and V merge in Spanishmerged as in Spanish (Central Catalan); v kept in Balearic and parts of Valenciav kept; B and V between vowels often lost (cal)VĪNUMvivin
- L before a consonant becomes ul kept (altre, falç)l kept (alt, cald)ALTERUMaltrealt
- CTit, t (the i absorbed by the vowel: nit, fet)ptNOCTEMnitnoapte
- L + yodll [ʎ]i [j] (the l lost)FOLIAMfullafoaie
- C'L inside a wordll [ʎ]chi, che [kʲ]OCULUMullochi
- CL-, PL-, FL- at the start of a wordcl- pl- fl- (kept)CL- → che-, chi- [kʲ]; PL-, FL- keptCLĀVEMclaucheie
- NN, GN and N + yodny [ɲ], also from NN (any)NI → i (vie); GN → mn (pumn); NN → n (an)ANNUManyan
- S + consonant at the start of a wordes-s- (kept)STELLAMestrellastea
- French loses S before a consonant (^)s kepts keptCOSTAMcostacoastă
- Italian assimilates clusterssimplified: pt → t, mn → n; x → ix [ʃ]pt and mn kept (șapte, somn); x → s, psSEPTEMsetșapte
- Final vowelsdropped except -a (said [ə]); -e kept after clusters-a → -ă, -e kept; -o (-U) dropped after a single consonantLUPUMlloplup
- Plurals: -s or -i-s, -es (from the accusative)-i, -e (like Italian); -uri for many neutersLUPŌS (acc.) / LUPĪ (nom.)llopslupi
- -TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà-tat-tateCĪVITĀTEMciutatcetate
- -TIŌNEM: learned -ción, inherited -zón-ció (learned); inherited -ó (raó, tió)-țiune (learned); inherited -ciune (tăciune)RATIŌNEMraórațiune (learned)
- -ĀRIUM: -ero, -ier, -aio-er, -era-ar, -are (căldare)CALDĀRIAMcalderacăldare
- Single L between vowels: lost in Portuguese, r in Romanianl keptr (cer, fir, sare)FĪLUMfilfir
- Portuguese loses single N between vowelsn kept; lost where it became final (mà; see final-n)n kept; a before it raised to â (lână, mână)LĀNAMllanalână
- Romanian turns velars into labialsit/t, ix [ʃ], ny; qu, gupt, ps, mn; p, b (labial)OCTŌvuitopt
- Romanian T, D, S before i become ț, z, șt, d, s keptț [ts], z, ș [ʃ]DĪCEREdirzice
- Catalan drops -n at the end of a wordlost (pa, vi); back in the plural (pans, vins)n kept (pâine, vin)PĀNEMpapâine
Les faux amis à surveiller
Pas encore de piège classique entre ces deux langues dans Cognata, mais chaque page de mot signale ceux qu’elle connaît.
Les mots à apprendre tels quels
Des mots courants pour lesquels le roumain a suivi son propre chemin.