Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/swekrū

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This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂. Cognate with Latin socrus.

Noun[edit]

*swekrū f

  1. mother-in-law

Declension[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Proto-Brythonic: *hwegr
    • Old Cornish: hweger
    • Welsh: chwegr

References[edit]

  • Corrected and Revised Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)