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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/llin

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 1

From Proto-Celtic *līnom. Cognate with Old Irish lín (“linen”).[1][2]

Noun

*llin ?

  1. flax
  2. linen
Descendants
  • Middle Breton: lin
  • Cornish: lyn
  • Welsh: llin

Further reading
  • Williams, Robert (1865) “lin”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page 236

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *līnom. Cognate with Old Irish lín (“full number”).[3]

Noun

*llin ?

  1. flow, fluid
Descendants
  • Middle Breton: lin
  • Cornish: lyn
  • Middle Welsh: llin

Further reading
  • Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 140

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*linnā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 240
  2. Koch, John (2004) “linen *līno-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 204
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*līno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 240-241
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