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Morph lab

ANNUM → año · an · anno

Spanish ñ was born here: medieval scribes wrote nn with a small n on top, and the tilde is that n. Catalan made the same palatal (any), Italian kept the double nn, Portuguese and Romanian simplified it to n, and French melted it into its nasal vowel.

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Spoken Latin

ANNUM

‘year’

ItalianStep 1 of 3
/ˈannum/

Classical Latin accusative

SpanishStep 1 of 3
/ˈannum/

Classical Latin accusative

FrenchStep 1 of 4
/ˈannum/

Classical Latin accusative

PortugueseStep 1 of 4
/ˈannum/

Classical Latin accusative

RomanianStep 1 of 3
/ˈannum/

Classical Latin accusative

CatalanStep 1 of 3
/ˈannum/

Classical Latin accusative

Spanish ñ was born here: medieval scribes wrote nn with a small n on top, and the tilde is that n. Catalan made the same palatal (any), Italian kept the double nn, Portuguese and Romanian simplified it to n, and French melted it into its nasal vowel.

Forms are written in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet: one symbol, one sound. Stressed syllables carry ˈ. Dates are approximate and given only where the handbooks agree. 24 word journeys.