Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/awV-

This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic

Etymology

Unknown. The exact form cannot be reconstructed with certainty. The Brythonic terms suggest a form beginning *awoi- or *awou-, but no connections outside Celtic can be established; possibly from a lost substrate.

Noun

*awV- m or f

1. liver

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *aβʉ
  • Middle Breton: auu
    • Breton: avu
  • Old Cornish: avi
    • Cornish: avi
  • Middle Welsh: auu
    • Welsh: afu
• Old Irish: óa
  • Middle Irish: áe
    • Irish: ae
    • Manx: aane
    • Scottish Gaelic: adha

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*awV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 49