Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/palad
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possibly either from *pal (“shovel, spade”) + *-ad, or inherited from Proto-Celtic *kʷalati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel(h₁)- (“to turn”),[1][2] compare Old Irish celtair (“spear, spear tip”).[3]
Verb
[edit]*palad
- to dig (up)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Williams, Robert (1865) “palas”, 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 277
References
[edit]- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 83
- ^ Falileyev, Alexander (2000) “pelechi”, in Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 129
- ^ Koch, John (2004) “dig *kʷal-e/o-)”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Categories:
- Proto-Brythonic terms derived from Latin
- Proto-Brythonic terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-Brythonic terms suffixed with *-ad
- Proto-Brythonic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Proto-Brythonic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Proto-Brythonic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Brythonic lemmas
- Proto-Brythonic verbs