ecce hic

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ecce +‎ hīc. Attested in Egeria, Augustine, and Gregory of Tours.^[1]

Adverb[edit]

ecce hīc (not comparable) (Late Latin)

here (emphatic)

Descendants[edit]

Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: si, zi
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: *ci ⇒ eysi, aici
  - Franco-Provençal: cé
- Old French: ci (central), chi (northern)
  - Franc-Comtois: si
  - Middle French: cy, sique
    - French: ci
  - Lorrain: si
  - Norman: chite (Bray)
  - Picard: chi, chique (Vraignes)
  - Walloon: ci
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: ací
- Old Occitan: si, ci ⇒ aici, aicit
  - Occitan: aicí, eicí
    Gascon: ací
Forms with /i-/ added by analogy with derivatives of illōc:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Piedmontese: issi
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
  - Old Franco-Provençal: ici
    - Franco-Provençal: icé
  - Oïl:
    - Bourbonnais-Berrichon: icite, éci, écit
    - Bourguignon: icin
    - French: ici
    - Lorrain: icite
    - Norman: ich'in, icin, ichen
    - Picard: ichi

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hīc”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 423

^ Sornicola, Rosanna. 2011. Per la storia dei dimostrativi romanzi: i tipi neutri [tso], [so], [ço], [tʃo] e la diacronia dei dimostrativi latini. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 127. 1–80. 282.

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