Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/swekrū

This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂. Cognate with Latin socrus.

Noun

*swekrū f

1. mother-in-law

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *hwegr
  • Old Cornish: hweger
  • Welsh: chwegr

References

• Corrected and Revised Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)