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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/büβal

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin būbalus (“buffalo, antelope”). Parallel borrowing with Old Irish búaball (“buffalo”).

Noun

*büβal m[1]

  1. buffalo
  2. drinking-horn

Descendants
  • Middle Breton: bual
  • Cornish: bual
  • Middle Welsh: bual

References
  1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 148: “Lat. būbalus > LPBr. *Βüβal”
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