Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/llɨβr
Proto-Brythonic
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Vulgar Latin lĭbrum, from Latin lībrum, accusative singular of līber (“book”).[1] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish lebor (“book”).
Noun
edit*llɨβr m
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Williams, Robert (1865) “liver”, 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 236
- Cornillet, Gérard (2017) “levr”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 1037
References
edit- ^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 59, 77
Categories:
- Proto-Brythonic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Brythonic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewbʰ- (cut off)
- Proto-Brythonic terms borrowed from Vulgar Latin
- Proto-Brythonic terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Proto-Brythonic terms derived from Latin
- Proto-Brythonic lemmas
- Proto-Brythonic nouns
- Proto-Brythonic masculine nouns