Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/aber

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 *adberos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbɛːr/

Noun

*aber m or f

1. mouth, confluence (of a river)

Descendants

• Old Breton: aperou pl (possibly borrowed from Old Welsh)
  • Breton: aber
    • → French: aber
• Old Cornish: aber
• Old Welsh: aper
  • Middle Welsh: aber
    • Welsh: aber

Further reading

• Williams, Robert (1865) “ABER”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page 2
• Falileyev, Alexander (2000) “aperou”, in Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 9