Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mrogis

This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“frontier, border”).^[1] Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”), Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, region”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀 (mar^əza, “frontier”).

Noun

*mrogis f^[2]^[3]

border, borderland, march, mark
region, country, territory, province

Declension

Masculine/feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mrogis	*mrogī	*mrogīs
vocative	*mrogi	*mrogī	*mrogīs
accusative	*mrogim	*mrogī	*mrogims
genitive	*mrogeis	*mrogyow	*mrogyom
dative	*mrogei	*mrogibom	*mrogibos
locative	*mrogei	*?	*?
instrumental	*mrogī	*mrogibim	*mrogibis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *broɣ
- Old Breton: bro
  - Middle Breton: bro
    - Breton: bro
- Cornish: bro
- Middle Welsh: bro
  - Welsh: bro
Old Irish: mruig
- Middle Irish: bruig, brug
  - Irish: brugh
Gaulish: *brogis,^[4] *-brogīs
- → Latin: brogi-, -broges
- ⇒? Gaulish: *brogilos
  - → Italian: brolo
  - → Old French: bruil
    - French: breuil
  - →? Old High German: brüel
    - Cimbrian: bröol
    - German: Brühl
  - → Venetan: broło

References

^ Weiss, Michael (2012) “Interesting i-stems in Irish”, in Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau and Michael Weiss, editors, Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, page 350
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mrogi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 280
^ Koch, John (2004) “*mrogi-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎^[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 43
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “brog(i)-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 91

[1] Weiss, Michael (2012) “Interesting i-stems in Irish”, in Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau and Michael Weiss, editors, Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, page 350

[2] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mrogi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 280

[3] Koch, John (2004) “*mrogi-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎^[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 43

[4] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “brog(i)-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 91

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