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Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh dwrn, from Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Breton dorn (“hand”), Old Irish dorn (“fist”)), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.
Noun
dwrn m (plural dyrnau)
- fist
- handle, knob
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN