Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/Uɨsk
Proto-Brythonic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *ɸēskos (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. This inherited term was supplanted as the generic word for "fish" by *pɨsk, a borrowing from Latin piscis, but survives as a fossilized term in a number of toponyms.
Proper noun edit
*Uɨsk
Descendants edit
Derived terms edit
- *kaɨr (“fort”) + *Uɨsk
- *Kaɨr Uɨsk (“Exeter”)
- Middle Cornish: Karesk
- Cornish: Karesk
- Old Welsh: Cair Uuisc
- Middle Cornish: Karesk
- *Kaɨr Uɨsk (“Exeter”)
References edit
- ^ Witcombe, Richard (2009). Who was Aveline anyway?: Mendip's Cave Names Explained (2nd ed.). Priddy: Wessex Cave Club.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall (1981). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names. Oxford [Eng.]: OUP. p. 171.
- ^ Owen, H.W. & Morgan, R. 2007 Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales Gomer Press, Ceredigion; Gwasg Gomer / Gomer Press; page 484.
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Ex”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.