Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/ödjon

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

Fossilized plural to Proto-Celtic n-stem *otyū^[1] ~ *otyones, ultimately of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to *wedos (“yoke, harness”).

Noun

*ödjon m

ox, bull
Synonym: *üx

Usage notes

Often used as the singular to *uxen (“oxen”), plural of *üx.

Descendants

Middle Breton: egen, eugen, eugenn
- Breton: ejen, ejon, ijenn
Old Cornish: odion
- Middle Cornish: udzheon, odgan
  - Cornish: ojyon
Welsh: eidion, eidon

References

^ Koch, John (2004), “bull *ot-jon-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎^[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 50

Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989), A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 107
Willis, David (2005), “Lexical diffusion in Middle Welsh: the distribution of /j/ in the law texts”, in Journal of Celtic Linguistics, volume 9, pages 105–33

[1] Koch, John (2004), “bull *ot-jon-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎^[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 50

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