benyw
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
Nominalized adjective, perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *banuyos,[1]masculine derived from Proto-Celtic *ban-, whence Welsh banon (“maiden queen”), Old Breton ban-doiuis (“goddess”), Old Irish ban-chú (“female dog”);[2] akin to Cornish benow (“feminine, female”).[3] Further related to Old Welsh ben (“woman”), from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Doublet of banw.
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈbɛnɨ̞u̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈbeːnɪu̯/, /ˈbɛnɪu̯/
- Rhymes: -ɛnɨ̞u̯
NounEdit
benyw f (plural benywod)
Derived termsEdit
- benywaidd (“female”, adjective)
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| benyw | fenyw | menyw | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 298
- ^ Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 61.
- ^ Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger & Carolin Schneider, eds., Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008), 178, 180n7.