Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/Gworθɨɣern
Proto-Brythonic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *Uɸortigernos. Equivalent to *gwo- (“sub-, under”) + *tɨɣern (“lord”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
edit*Gworθɨɣern
- a male given name
Descendants
edit- Old Breton: Guorthigern
- Breton: Gourziern
- Old Welsh: Guorthigirn
- → Old English: Wyrtġeorn [9th c. CE] [1]
- → Latin: Vortigernus, Gurthigernus [5th–6th c. CE?],[2] Vertigernus [725 CE],[3] Uvertigernus [9th c. CE],[4] Vurtigernus[5]
- → English: Vortigern
References
edit- ^ Bately, Janet M. (1986) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition. Vol. 3: MS. A.
- ^ Kerlouégan, François (1987) Le de excidio britanniae de Gildas (in French), →ISBN. Hugh Williams (1899) argued that the name was interpolated in later MSS., but the argument is inconclusive and rejected by some scholars. See Radford, C. A. Ralegh (1958) “Vortigern”, in Antiquity, volume 32, page 19.
- ^ Jones, Charles W. (ed.), Beda Venerabilis (1977) De temporum ratione liber, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 123B
- ^ Dumville, David N. (1973) “A new chronicle-fragment of early British history”, in The English Historical Review, 88, page 314: “Annos CCCCXLVIIII Martinus cum Ualentiniano imperium su[scip]iens et vii annis [tenuit]; quorum tempore Angli, a Uuertigerno Brittonum rege arcessiti, Brittaniam adierunt quorum dux erat Hengist filius Ohta.”
- ^ Chadwick, N.K. (ed.) (1954) Studies in Early British History