benyw

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Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Nominalized adjective, perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *banuyos,[1]masculine derived from Proto-Celtic *ban-, whence Welsh banon (“maiden queen”), Old Breton ban-doiuis (“goddess”), Old Irish ban-chú (“female dog”);[2] akin to Cornish benow (“feminine, female”).[3] Further related to Old Welsh ben (“woman”), from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Doublet of banw.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

benyw f (plural benywod)

  1. woman
    Synonyms: dynes, menyw, merch
  2. female
    Synonym: menyw

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
benyw fenyw menyw unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 298
  2. ^ Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 61.
  3. ^ Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger & Carolin Schneider, eds., Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008), 178, 180n7.
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