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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/munβ̃ent

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 monumenta, nominative plural of monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”).[1] Cognate with *menw (“thought, mind”). Parallel borrowing with Middle Irish monameint (“monument”).[2]

Noun

*munβ̃ent f[3][4]

  1. graveyard, churchyard

Descendants
  • Middle Welsh: mynwent

References
  1. Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 63: “W. mynwent ‘grave-yard’ : Lat. monumentum (len. m > w)”
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “monameint”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. McCone, Kim (1996) Towards a relative chronology of ancient and medieval Celtic sound change, Maynooth: Dept. of Old Irish, St. Patrick's College, →ISBN, page 80: “mynwent < *Munμent < monimenta”
  4. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 35: “< PBr. *Monμent < Lat. monumenta (or moni-)”
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