Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gwesper

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

PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros

Borrowed from Latin vesper (“evening, vesper”).[1] Doublet of *ʉxer (“evening”). Possible parallel borrowing with Old Irish fescor (“evening, vesper”), if not inherited from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros.

Noun

*gwesper m

  1. evening, vesper

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

  • Breton: gousper, gosper, guesper
  • Cornish: gwesper
  • Middle Welsh: gosper

References

  1. ^ Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989), A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 57
  2. ^ Peter C. H. Schrijver (1995), Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, page 114: “*u̯osper-”
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