Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/suɨβ̃
Proto-Brythonic
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease”).[1] Parallel borrowing with Irish saim (“lard”), Cornish seym, and Welsh saim,[2] all through Old French saim (“fat”).
Noun
edit*suɨβ̃ f
Descendants
edit- Middle Breton: soaff, soa
- Breton: soav
- Middle Cornish: soa
- Cornish: soov
- Middle Welsh: swyf
- Welsh: swyf
References
edit- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 222
- ^ Williams, Robert (1865) “321”, 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 syem