Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/dol
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Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly inherited from Proto-Celtic *dolā, cognate with Proto-Germanic *dalą, *dōljō (“valley”),[1][2] though perhaps instead borrowed from Germanic, compare Irish dail (“field, meadow”), itself borrowed from Old Norse dalr (“meadow, dale”).
Noun
*dol f
Descendants
- Breton: *dol (found in placenames)
- Middle Welsh: dol
- Welsh: dôl
- ⇒ Welsh: Blaenydhôl
- ⇒ Welsh: Dolgarrog
- Welsh: dôl
- Cornish: *dol (found in placenames)
- ⇒ Cornish: Dollywhiddens
- ⇒ Cornish: Godolphin
Further reading
- Williams, Robert (1865) “DOL”, 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 107
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dolā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 103
- ^ Koch, John (2004) “valley *dolā-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 375