Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/manax
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Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin monachus. Parallel borrowing with Old Irish manach.
Noun
Descendants
- Breton: manac'h
- Old Cornish: manach
- Cornish: manah
- Middle Welsh: manach, menach
- Welsh: mynach
- →? Old Irish: manach (see there for further descendants)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 95: “PBr. *manaxos”