Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”).

Noun

*bʰébʰrus m (oblique stem *bʰébʰr-)

1. beaver

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Proto-Balto-Slavic: *bebrus, *bibrus (< *bʰibʰrus)
  • Latgalian: babrys m, babrīne f
  • Latvian: bebrs, bebris (dialectal)
  • Lithuanian: bẽbras
  • Old Prussian: bebrus
  • Proto-Slavic: *bebrъ, *bobrъ (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Slavic: *bьbrъ (< *bʰibʰrus) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Celtic: *bebrus
  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Old Breton: beuer
    • Welsh: befer
  • Old Irish: Bibar
  • Gaulish: Bebriacum, Bibracte
    • → Latin: Bibracte
      • French: Bibracte
    • → Latin: beber
      • Old French: bievre
        • Middle French: bievre
          • French: bièvre
      • Italian: bevero
      • Galician: befre
      • Old Spanish: befre
• Proto-Germanic: *bebruz (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *bʰábʰruš (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Italic: *febros
  • Latin: fiber

References

• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN