Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/traɨθ
Proto-Brythonic edit
Etymology edit
Although often supposed to be a borrowing from Latin tractus (“stretch, tract of land”) this poses semantic difficulties, and moreover the presence of an exact parallel in Old Irish tracht (“beach”) suggests instead descent from Proto-Celtic *traxtus, which could itself be from the same source as tractus (Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw out, pull”)).
Noun edit
*traɨθ m
Descendants edit
References edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “traeth”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “traogh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN