Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/puɨs

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 Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.^[1] Parallel borrowing with Middle Irish pís (“name of a weight; pennyweight”).^[2]

Noun

*puɨs m

weight

Descendants

Breton: pouez
Middle Cornish: poys, pos, poos
- Cornish: poos
Middle Welsh: pwys
- Welsh: pwys

References

^ Peter C. H. Schrijver (1995), Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, page 225.
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[1] Peter C. H. Schrijver (1995), Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, page 225.

[2] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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