Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/pɨsk

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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]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

*pɨsk m (plural *pɨskọd)

  1. fish

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Breton: pesq
  • Old Cornish: pisc
  • Middle Welsh: pysc
    • Welsh: pysg (obsolete, displaced by the derived term pysgodyn)

References[edit]

  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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