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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dubros

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

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰubʰrós (dark), from *dʰewbʰ- (deep).

Adjective

*dubros[1]

  1. dark

Noun

*dubros m[2]

  1. water

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *dubros *dubrou *dubroi
vocative *dubre *dubrou *dubrūs
accusative *dubrom *dubrou *dubroms
genitive *dubrī *dubrous *dubrom
dative *dubrūi *dubrobom *dubrobos
locative *dubrei *? *?
instrumental *dubrū *dubrobim *dubrūis

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *duβr
    • Middle Breton: dour
    • Cornish: dowr
    • Middle Welsh: dwfyr
  • Old Irish: dobur
  • Gaulish: Dubra, Uerbo-dubrum
  • Celtiberian:

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dubro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 107-108
  2. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*dʰeu̯b-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 122-124
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