Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/traɨθ

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

Although often supposed to be a borrowing from Latin tractus (“stretch, tract of land”) this poses semantic difficulties, and moreover the presence of an exact parallel in Old Irish tracht (“beach”) suggests instead descent from Proto-Celtic *traxtus, which could itself be from the same source as tractus (Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw out, pull”)).

Noun

*traɨθ m

beach
(Southwestern Brythonic) sand

Descendants

Middle Breton: traez
- Breton: traezh
Old Cornish: trait
- Middle Cornish: traith, treath
  - Cornish: treth
Middle Welsh: traeth
- Welsh: traeth

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “traeth”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “traogh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

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