Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/mėgin

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *magô (“stomach”), Russian мошна (mošna, “pouch, purse”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mak-.^[1]

Noun[edit]

*mėgin f

bellows

Descendants[edit]

Middle Breton: meguin
- Breton: megin, begin
Old Cornish: mygen
- Cornish: mygenow, meginow pl
Middle Welsh: megin
- Welsh: megin

References[edit]

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *makīnā–254

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