Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/spɨrɨd

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

Borrowed from Latin spīritus. Parallel borrowing with Old Irish spirut (“spirit”).^[1]

Noun

*spɨrɨd m^[2]

spirit

Descendants

Breton: spered
Middle Cornish: sperys
- Cornish: spyrys
Middle Welsh: yspryt
- Welsh: ysbryd

References

^ Williams, Robert (1865) “spirit”, 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 234
^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 16: “PBr. *spiri^ǀtus > LPBr. *spïrï^ǀd”

[1] Williams, Robert (1865) “spirit”, 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 234

[2] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 16: “PBr. *spiri^ǀtus > LPBr. *spïrï^ǀd”

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