Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/funtọn
Proto-Brythonic
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Late Latin fontāna, with regular raising of *o to *u before a nasal and stop.[1] Compare Old English *funta, recorded in toponyms across Southern England,[2] which in light of the vowel quality may be an early borrowing from Brythonic.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*funtọn f[1]
Descendants
edit- Old Breton: funtun, funton
- Old Cornish: funten
- Old Welsh: finnaun, fynnaun (nn < nt by assimilation)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 165: “*füntɔ̄n; *fǔntɔ̄na; PBr. *funtɔ̄na”
- ^ Gelling, Margaret (1977) “Latin loan-words in Old English place-names”, in Anglo-Saxon England, volume 6, pages 8-10