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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/krɨβ̃
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kriɸmos, from *kriɸ- (“body”) (whence also Middle Irish crí) + *-mos, from Proto-Indo-European *krep- (“body”) (compare Latin corpus (“body”), Old English hrif (“belly, womb”) (modern English riff), and Sanskrit कृप् (kṛ́p, “form, shape”)).[1] Doublet of *korf.
Descendants
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*krif-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 224
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