Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dwār

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 *dʰwṓr.

Noun

*dwār m

1. door

Declension

Originally an ablauting paradigm following the Proto-Indo-European ancestor:

• Accusative singular: *dworam (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwórm̥)
• Genitive singular: *duros (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰurós, *dʰurés)

Derived terms

• *dworestus (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *dor (from Early Brythonic *dorā, generalized from the accusative *dworam)
  • Middle Breton: dor
    • Breton: dor
  • Cornish: dor, darat
  • Old Welsh: dor
    • Middle Welsh: dor
      • Welsh: dôr
• Gaulish: *durom (generalized from the genitive *duros)
  • → Latin: Augustodurum
  • → Latin: Nemetodurum
    • French: Nanterre

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dworā, *duro-, *dworestu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 111–12