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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gwüxī

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

From Proto-Celtic *woxsī, perhaps generalized from the plural, from Proto-Indo-European *wóps-ih₂, from *wóps.

Noun

*gwüxī f[1][2]

  1. wasp

Descendants
  • Old Breton: guohi
    • Middle Breton: goui
  • Old Cornish: guhi-en
  • Middle Welsh: gwychi
  • → Old Irish: foich[3][4]

References
  1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 160
  2. Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page uassos of 307-308
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *woxs-V-–429
  4. Koch, John (2004) “*wosφī-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 382
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