ewyn

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brittonic *owin (compare Welsh ewyn, Middle Breton eon and Modern Breton ewon. The e-vocalism in Brittonic is the result of Umlaut) from Proto-Celtic *fowino- (or possibly *fowsino- < from PIE *pew(H)- )[1] (compare Old Irish auen, uan, 'foam' and Modern Irish uan (variants obhan, odhan and othan[2] which all reflect the early Old Irish pronunciation of auen as a disyllabic word before loss of hiatus original caused by loss of *w.)

Noun

ewyn f (singulative ewynen)

  1. foam

References
  1. Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, Ranko Matasović, Leiden/Boston, 2009, p.138
  2. Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla (Irish-English Dictionary), Pádraig S. Dineen, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1996 (first published 1927), p.1286

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *owin (compare Cornish ewyn, Middle Breton eon and Modern Breton ewon).

Pronunciation

Noun

ewyn m (plural ewynnau or ewynion)

  1. foam, spume, froth
  2. suds, lather, scum

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ewyn unchanged unchanged hewyn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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