dwrn

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Breton dorn (“hand”), Old Irish dorn (“fist”)), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Noun

dwrn m (plural dyrnau)

1. fist
2. handle, knob

Derived terms

• arddwrn
• cildwrn
• dyrnaid
• dyrnfedd
• dyrnio
• dyrnod (“punch, thump”)
• dyrnu

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dwrn	ddwrn	nwrn	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN