Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/weskʷeros
Proto-Celtic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros.
Noun edit
Alternative reconstructions edit
- *wexseros, *wexsɸeros[2]
Descendants edit
- Proto-Brythonic: *ʉxer
- Old Cornish: *uher
- ⇒ Old Cornish: gurthuher
- Cornish: gorthugher
- ⇒ Old Cornish: gurthuher
- Middle Welsh: ucher
- Old Cornish: *uher
- Old Irish: fescor
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*weskʷero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 159-160: “*u̯e(k)speros; *u̯exsero-”