Resumen de Occitan (Velay) prounseau et prounsean ‘sorte de grive’: deux inconnus du FEW (dont un en langage des animaux)

Jean-Pierre Chambon

• The purpose of this contribution is to give an etymology to two Occitan words regarded as of unknown origin by the FEW. Velay prounseau ‘a kind of thrush’ is a regular issue of Old Occitan proensal ‘of Provence’. The nasalized form prounsean is a phono-stylistic and zoolectal variant of prounseau.