Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/diaβul

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diabolus. Parallel borrowing with Old Irish díabul (“devil”).

Noun

*diaβul m

1. (Christianity) devil

Descendants

• Middle Breton: diaoul
  • Breton: diaoul
• Cornish: dyowl, dyaul, jawl
• Old Welsh: diaul
  • Middle Welsh: diawl, diauul
    • Welsh: diawl, diafol

Further reading

• Williams, Robert (1865) “diawl”, 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 102
• Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 88, 106-107