Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gwesper
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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]
| PIE word |
|---|
| *wek(ʷ)speros |
Borrowed from Latin vesper (“evening, vesper”).[1] Doublet of *ʉxer (“evening”). Possible parallel borrowing with Old Irish fescor (“evening, vesper”), if not inherited from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros.
Noun[edit]
*gwesper m
Alternative reconstructions[edit]
- *gwosper[2]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 57
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 114: “*u̯osper-”