Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/pɨsk

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

Borrowed from Latin piscis.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Displaced the native cognate *uɨsk (which survives only in the hydronym *Uɨsk), from Proto-Celtic *ɸeiskos (“fish”). Cognate with the inherited Old Irish íasc (“fish”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɨsk/

Noun

*pɨsk m (plural *pɨskọd)

fish

Descendants

Middle Breton: pesq
- Breton: pesk
Old Cornish: pisc
- Middle Cornish: pysk
  - Cornish: pysk, pesk (Revived Late Cornish)
Middle Welsh: pysc
- Welsh: pysg (obsolete, displaced by the derived term pysgodyn)

References

^ Jackson, Kenneth (1953) Language and History in Early Britain: a chronological survey of the Brittonic Languages, 1st to 12th c. A.D., Edinburgh: The University Press, →ISBN, page 78
^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pysg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
^ Deshayes, Albert (2003) Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (in French), Douarnenez: Le Chasse-Marée, →ISBN, page 574
^ Wild, John P. (1970) “Borrowed names for borrowed things?”, in Antiquity, pages 127-128

[1] Jackson, Kenneth (1953) Language and History in Early Britain: a chronological survey of the Brittonic Languages, 1st to 12th c. A.D., Edinburgh: The University Press, →ISBN, page 78

[2] R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pysg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

[3] Deshayes, Albert (2003) Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (in French), Douarnenez: Le Chasse-Marée, →ISBN, page 574

[4] Wild, John P. (1970) “Borrowed names for borrowed things?”, in Antiquity, pages 127-128

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