brennik

Cornish

Alternative forms

• bernik / brednik (Revived Late Cornish)

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *brėnnig, from Proto-Celtic *barannīkos. Compare Breton and Welsh brennig.

Noun

brennik (collective, singulative brenigen f)

1. limpets

Mutation

Mutation of brennik

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
brennik	vrennik	unchanged	prennik	frennik, vrennik*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “barina”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 57