1100s

Catalan words first recorded in the 12th century

1 Catalan word whose earliest known written record dates from the 12th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. aigua

   1169

   It is inherited from Old Catalan aygua, the usual spelling of the medieval texts, which is inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). The same Latin word is Occitan aiga, Spanish agua, French eau, Italian…

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