Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/aber

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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

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *adberos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈbɛːr/

Noun

*aber m or f

mouth, confluence (of a river)

Descendants

Old Breton: aperou pl (possibly borrowed from Old Welsh^[1])
- Breton: aber
  - → French: aber
Old Cornish: aber
Old Welsh: aper
- Middle Welsh: aber
  - Welsh: aber

Further reading

Williams, Robert (1865) “ABER”, 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 2
Falileyev, Alexander (2000) “aperou”, in Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 9

References

^ Fleuriot, Léon, Evans, Claude (1985) A Dictionary of Old Breton – Dictionnaire du vieux breton: Historical and Comparative (in French), Toronto: Prepcorp, page 69

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