Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-adʉr
Proto-Brythonic
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editDescendants
editFurther 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”