Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/uɸoberā

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

Prefixed with *uɸo-, see *komberos for further etymology and related terms.

Noun

*uɸoberā f

1. stream

   Synonym: *srouman

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*uɸoberā	*uɸoberai	*uɸoberās
vocative	*uɸoberā	*uɸoberai	*uɸoberās
accusative	*uɸoberam	*uɸoberai	*uɸoberāms
genitive	*uɸoberās	*uɸoberous	*uɸoberom
dative	*uɸoberāi	*uɸoberābom	*uɸoberābos
locative	*uɸoberai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*uɸoberābim	*uɸoberābis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *gwoβ̃er
  • Middle Breton: gouher, gouver
    • Breton: gouer, gouver
  • Old Cornish: guuer
  • Middle Welsh: gouer
    • Welsh: gofer
• Middle Irish: fobar (“well, spring”)
  • Irish: fobhar
• Gaulish: *uabera
  • → French: Vaivre, Vavre, Voivre, Vaure, Woëvre, Vabre, Vèvre, Vesvres, Lavaur
  • → German: Waber

Further reading

• Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb
• Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “uobera, uoberno-”, 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 325
• Stalmaszczyk, Piotr, Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz (1993) “Studies in Indo-European Vocabulary”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 98, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 24-39