Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-iβ̃

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.

From Insular Celtic Proto-Celtic *-ī-mā. Originally occurring in compounds *kreddīmā, *(ɸ)rodīmā, where the formation *dīmā, from Pre-Celtic *dʰeh₁meh₂, was resegmented as *-d-īmā. Supplanted *-ed and possibly *-id as the productive verbal noun formative for ī-verbs.

• IPA^(key): /iβ̃/

*-iβ̃

1. Forms verbal nouns, originally from ī-verbs.

• *-aβ̃
• *-oβ̃
• *-ọβ̃

• Old Welsh: -im
  • Middle Welsh: -if, -i
    • Welsh: -i
• Middle Breton: -iff
  • Breton: -iñ
• Middle Cornish: -y

• Stefan Schumacher (2000), The Historical Morphology of the Welsh Verbal Noun, Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics IV, The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, page 129-133