Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/neɨθjuɨr

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

Uncertain; possibly from:

• *noɨθ (“night”), from Proto-Celtic *noxs, + *huɨr (“late”);
• or borrowed from unattested Vulgar Latin *noxtiōr, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷt-yōs, from *nókʷts (“night”) +‎ *-yōs, cognate with Albanian nesër (“tomorrow”).

Adverb

*neɨθjuɨr

1. last night

Descendants

• Middle Breton: neyzor
  • Breton: neizheur, neizhour
• Cornish: nyhewer, nehuer
• Middle Welsh: neithiwyr, neithwyr
  • Welsh: neithiwr

Further reading

• Williams, Robert (1865) “neihur”, 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 265
• Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 41
• Cornillet, Gérard (2017) “neizheur”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 1172