dwrn

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Breton dorn (“hand”), Old Irish dorn (“fist”)), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Noun

dwrn m (plural dyrnau)

  1. fist
  2. handle, knob

Derived terms

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dwrn ddwrn nwrn unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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