Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/Gwodọðin

This Proto-Brythonic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Brythonic

Etymology

From earlier *wotǭd, the masculine form of *wotād ("foundation; support") + *-īn. Wotǭd was likely an epithet for an ancestral figure.

Proper noun

*Gwodọðin

1. The Votadini, an ancient Celtic tribe of what is now southeast Scotland and northeast England.

Descendants

• Old Welsh: Guotodin
  • Middle Welsh: Gododdin
    • Welsh: Gododdin
• → Ancient Greek: Ὠταδηνοί (Ōtadēnoí)
• → Latin: Votadini