Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/krank

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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]

Likely borrowed from Late Latin crancus (compare Catalan cranc, Occitan cranc; Italian granchio, from *cranculus), a metathetic form of cancer (“crab”).[1][2] Doublet of *kankr, whence Old Cornish cancher (“crab”).

Noun[edit]

*krank m

  1. crab

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Breton: cranq, crancq
  • Middle Welsh: cranc

Further reading[edit]

  • Koch, John (2004) “crab *krankko-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎[2], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cranc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

References[edit]

  1. ^ Craddock, J. R. (2006) “The Romance descendants of Latin cancer and vespa”, in Romance Philology, volume 60, page 7
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2012) “The Substratum in Insular Celtic”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎[1], volume 8, page 157 of 153-168: “W cranc, probably from Lat. cancer”
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