Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-adʉr

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 -ātor.^[1] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish -atóir.

Suffix edit

*-adʉr

-er. Forms agent nouns from verbs.
Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument.

Derived terms edit

Proto-Brythonic terms suffixed with *-adʉr

Descendants edit

Old Breton: -adur
- Middle Breton: -adur
  - Breton: -adur
Old Cornish: -adur
- Middle Cornish: -adur
  - Cornish: -ador
Old Welsh: -adur
- Middle Welsh: -adur
  - Welsh: -adur

Further reading edit

Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 433; 435; 446
Cornillet, Gérard (2017) “-adur”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 5

References edit

^ de Goede, Tim (2014) de Vaan, Michiel, editors, Derivational Morphology: New Perspectives on the Italo-Celtic Hypothesis (Research master thesis)‎^[1], Leiden University, page 31: “borrowed from L -ātor”

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