Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gwesper

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

PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros

Borrowed from Latin vesper (“evening, vesper”).^[1] Doublet of *ʉxer (“evening”). Possible parallel borrowing with Old Irish fescor (“evening, vesper”), if not inherited from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros.

Noun

*gwesper m

evening, vesper

Alternative reconstructions

*gwosper^[2]

Descendants

Breton: gousper, gosper, guesper
Cornish: gwesper
Welsh: gosber, gosper

References

^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 57
^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 114: “*u̯osper-”

[1] Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 57

[2] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 114: “*u̯osper-”

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