Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/brawū

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 *gʷréh₂wō (“quern, millstone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).

Noun

*brawū f

1. quern, millstone

Declension

Masculine/feminine n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*brawū	*brawone?	*brawones
vocative	*brawū	*brawone?	*brawones
accusative	*brawonam	*brawone?	*brawonams
genitive	*brawonos	*brawonows?	*brawonom
dative	*brawonei	*brawombom	*brawombos
locative	*brawon(i)	*?	*?
instrumental	*brawonei	*brawombim	*brawombis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic:
  • Middle Breton: brou, breau, breo
    • Breton: brev
  • Old Cornish: brou
    • Cornish: brou
  • Middle Welsh: breuan, brewan
    • Welsh: breuan
  • → Latin: Brovonacis, Braboniaco
• Old Irish: brao, bráu, broo
  • Middle Irish: bró
    • Irish: bró
    • Scottish Gaelic: brà
• Gaulish: *brawon
  • → Ancient Greek: Βραῦον (Braûon)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language