Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/koɨd

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

From Proto-Celtic *kaitos, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, wasteland”), as well as perhaps Latin bū-cētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”), Albanian kath (“type of wheat”), kashtë (“straw”),

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɨ̯d/

Noun

*koɨd m

1. wood, forest

Derived terms

• *argoɨd

Descendants

• Middle Breton: coat
  • Breton: koad
• Old Cornish: cuit
  • Middle Cornish: coys
    • Cornish: koos
• Old Welsh: coit
  • Welsh: coed

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kayto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 198