Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/mehalx

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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]

Unknown. Matasović concludes it as a loanword from a Northwestern European language.[1] Cognate with Latin merula and Proto-Germanic *amslǭ.

Noun[edit]

*mehalx f

  1. blackbird

Alternative reconstructions[edit]

  • *muɨalx (late Proto-Brythonic)

Descendants[edit]

  • Old Breton: moualch
  • Old Cornish: moelh
  • Welsh: mwyalch, mwyeilch

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mesal-kā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 268