Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/pɨg

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 edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin pix.^[1] Parallel borrowing with Irish pic (“pitch, tar”).

Noun edit

*pɨg f

pitch, tar

Descendants edit

Old Breton: pic
- Middle Breton: pec
  - Breton: pec, peg
Welsh: pyg
Cornish: peg

References edit

^ Williams, Robert (1865) “Proto-Brythonic/pɨg”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English, London: Trubner & Co., page braich

[1] Williams, Robert (1865) “Proto-Brythonic/pɨg”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English, London: Trubner & Co., page braich

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