Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/oβn

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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]

From Proto-Celtic *(ɸ)oβnus, possibly related to *ʉθ (“horror”). Cognate with Old Irish ómun (“fear”).

Noun[edit]

*oβn m[1]

  1. fear

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Breton: oun
  • Cornish: own
  • Middle Welsh: ofuyn

Further reading[edit]

  • 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, pages exobnos–170
  • Koch, John (2004) “fear *obno-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 118
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fowtu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 138

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 353: “PIE *pou-nV- > PBr. *obnus (or *omnus?) ‘fear’”
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