l pinguis

noun

dark l

Meanings

noun
  1. human sciencesdark l

    Wolf records several Barbaricine toponyms ending in unaccented -́al-. This is unlikely to go back to Latin, as in Latin unstressed short vowels in open syllables were largely reduced to -i in open syllables, or to -u before l pinguis.

    2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 437
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