ecce hic

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adverb

ecce hīc (not comparable) (Late Latin)

  1. here (emphatic)

Descendants
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: si, zi
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Franco-Provençal: *ci ⇒ eysi, aici
      • Franco-Provençal: cé
    • Old French: ci (central), chi (northern)
  • 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:
    • 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

References
  1. 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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