Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/axọs

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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

Borrowed from Latin occāsiō (“occasion, opportunity”).[1][2] Parallel borrowing with Cornish acheson (“occasion, reason”), Old Irish accuis (“cause, reason”).[3]

Noun

*axọs m

  1. occasion, reason

Descendants

  • Middle Welsh: achaws

References

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 196: “Lat. occāsiō > PBr. *akkɔ̄ǀsi̯ū > *axɔǀs”
  2. ^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 57: “Olr. accuiss ‘cause’ W. achos : Lat. occāsio”
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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