Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/suɨβ̃
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Proto-Brythonic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease”).[1] Parallel borrowing with Irish saim (“lard”), Cornish seym, and Welsh saim,[2] all through Old French saim (“fat”).
Noun
[edit]*suɨβ̃ f
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 222
- ^ Williams, Robert (1865) chapter 321, 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 syem