Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/kawl
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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]
Borrowed from Latin caulis.[1][2][3] Parallel borrowing with Irish cóilis (“cabbage”).[4]
Noun[edit]
*kawl m
Descendants[edit]
- Middle Breton: caul pl, caoll pl
- Breton: kaol pl
- Old Cornish: caul
- → Cornish: kowl (semi-learned)
- Middle Welsh: kawl
References[edit]
- ^ Jackson, Kenneth (1953) Language and History in Early Britain: a chronological survey of the Brittonic Languages, 1st to 12th c. A.D., Edinburgh: The University Press, →ISBN, page 322
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 272
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cawl”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cóilis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language