Talk:uncia

Descendants

French once represents a Latin form ŭncia with a short vowel.

The forms in other Romance languages appear to also indicate this, so mentioning that would be important, but would we need a source for that? -- Mocha2007 (talk) 22:03, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@Mocha2007: Hmm, I think it's good to include a source so that users can check and see for themselves, which is why I cited Andrew Sihler's "New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin"(1995). Do you think the entry should be formatted differently?--Urszag (talk) 06:31, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

@Urszag: Sorry, I meant to say it should be noted that other romance languages do this too, not just French. Obviously the current citation should be kept. -- Mocha2007 (talk) 13:35, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Etymology

Every authority currently agrees it's from PIE *oynos (one) somehow. It almost certainly isn't directly from unus like most of our ounce related entries currently claim. For the possibility of its relation to ancient methods of counting to 12, see the well sourced discussion here. It seems Walde, Meillet, and Meyer-Lübke discuss it in a way that leaves the possibility open but don't explicitly draw a connection themselves. — LlywelynII 05:42, 7 January 2023 (UTC)