Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/tėnėw
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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]From Proto-Celtic *tanawyos.[1][2][3][4]
Adjective
[edit]*tėnėw (feminine *tanaw)
Descendants
[edit]The Welsh word is derived from the masculine form *tėnėw, while the other Brythonic languages used the feminine form *tanaw.
Further reading
[edit]- Falileyev, Alexander (2000) “teneu”, in Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 146
- Williams, Robert (1865) “tanow”, 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 330
References
[edit]- ^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 46
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tanawyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 367-368
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 85: “*tanau̯i̯o-”
- ^ Koch, John (2004) “*tanawo-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 357