Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/awV-

This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic

Etymology

Unknown. The exact form cannot be reconstructed with certainty. The Brythonic terms suggest a form beginning *awoi- or *awou-, but no connections outside Celtic can be established; possibly from a lost substrate.

Noun

*awV- m or f

liver

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *aβʉ
- Middle Breton: auu
  - Breton: avu
- Old Cornish: avi
  - Cornish: avi
- Middle Welsh: auu
  - Welsh: afu
Old Irish: óa
- Middle Irish: áe
  - Irish: ae
  - Manx: aane
  - Scottish Gaelic: adha

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*awV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 49

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