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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/assow

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

Alternative reconstructions
  • *assuɨ (< masc. *assouyos)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *assouyā f, *assouyos m, from *ad- (“to, at, towards”) +‎ *souyos (“left”).[1][2]

Adjective

*assow

  1. left
    Synonym: *kleð

Descendants
  • Middle Breton: hasou, hasaou
  • Middle Welsh: asswy, aswy (< *assuɨ), asu, asseu

References
  1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 262, 297, 302
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*assowyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 44
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