Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/swesūr

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 *swésōr.

Noun

*swesūr f

1. sister

Declension

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*swesūr	*swesre	*swesres
vocative	*swesūr	*swesre	*swesres
accusative	*swesram	*swesre	*swesrams
genitive	*swesros	*swesrou	*swesrom
dative	*swesrei	*swesrobom	*swesrobos
locative	*swesri	—	—
instrumental	*swesre?	*swesrobim	*swesrobis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *hwoɨr
  • Old Breton: guoer
    • Middle Breton: hoer
      • Breton: c'hoar
  • Old Cornish: huir
    • Cornish: hwor
  • Middle Welsh: chwaer
    • Welsh: chwaer
• Old Irish: siur
  • Irish: siúr
  • Manx: shuyr
  • ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: piuthar (back-formed from lenited form fiur, phiur)
• Gaulish: suiorebe (instrumental plural)

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 364
• Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 388