Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/tėnėw

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *tanawyos.[1][2][3][4]

Adjective

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*tėnėw (feminine *tanaw)

  1. thin

Descendants

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The Welsh word is derived from the masculine form *tėnėw, while the other Brythonic languages used the feminine form *tanaw.

  • Middle Breton: tanau, tanow
  • Old Cornish: tenewen
  • Old Welsh: teneu

Further reading

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  • Falileyev, Alexander (2000) “teneu”, in Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 146
  • Williams, Robert (1865) “tanow”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English, London: Trubner & Co., page 330

References

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  1. ^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 46
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tanawyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 367-368
  3. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 85:*tanau̯i̯o-
  4. ^ Koch, John (2004) “*tanawo-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 357