Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/maguɨr
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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 măcēria, from Latin mācĕria (“wall”).[1][2][3] Parallel borrowing with Middle Irish macre (“wall trowel”).[4]
Noun
*maguɨr f
Descendants
References
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 217: “PBr. *Magēr < *măkēria < Lat. mācĕria”
- ^ Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 58: “W. magwyr ‘wall’ OBr. macoer (MnBr. moger) *macēria < Lat. māceria.”
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 61
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “macre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language