A Refactoring of Spanish & Portuguese · companion data
Companion / Part 6 / 6.15.2
Section 6.15.2

The -ino/-ina family: n → n & ɲ

23 cognate pairs · click a row for its historical trace

CCASpanishES IPAPortuguesePT IPAEnglish
/ga.ˈna.ɾe/ganar/ga.ˈnaɾ/ganhar/gɐ.ˈɲaɾ/to gain
/dam.ˈni.no/dañino/da.ˈɲi.no/daninho/dɐ.ˈni.ɲu/harmful
/pa.ˈdɾi.no/padrino/pa.ˈðɾi.no/padrinho/pɐ.ˈdɾi.ɲu/godfather
/mis.ˈkin/mezquino/meθ.ˈki.no/mesquinho/mɨʃ.ˈki.ɲu/mean, paltry, miserly
Every table here shows the full corpus behind a sound correspondence — the print book shows a curated handful. Forms are generated from the book’s Latin→Romance model; the CCA column is the reconstructed common ancestor.