Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-hed

This Proto-Brythonic 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-Brythonic

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *-(i)setos, with secondary restoration of the -h- from adjectives where -s- was not intervocalic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heːd/

Adjective

*-hed

1. Forms an equative of an adjective.

Descendants

• Middle Welsh: -ed, -hed
  • Welsh: -ed

See also

• *-haβ̃
• *-ox

References

• Aaron Griffith, British Celtic intervocalic *s, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, [1]