Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/llɨβr

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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 Vulgar Latin lĭbrum, from Latin lībrum, accusative singular of līber (book).[1] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish lebor (book).

Noun

*llɨβr m

  1. book

Descendants

  • Old Breton: libr
  • Middle Cornish: lyver
  • Middle Welsh: llyuyr

Further reading

  • Williams, Robert (1865) “liver”, 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 236
  • Cornillet, Gérard (2017) “levr”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 1037

References

  1. ^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 59, 77