Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/axọs

This Proto-Brythonic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Borrowed from Latin occāsiō (“occasion, opportunity”).[1][2] Parallel borrowing with Cornish acheson (“occasion, reason”), Old Irish accuis (“cause, reason”).[3]

Noun

*axọs m

occasion, reason

Descendants

Middle Welsh: achaws
- Welsh: achos

References

Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 196: “Lat. occāsiō > PBr. *akkɔ̄^ǀsi̯ū > *axɔ^ǀs”
Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 57: “Olr. accuiss ‘cause’ W. achos : Lat. occāsio”
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “accais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[1] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 196: “Lat. occāsiō > PBr. *akkɔ̄^ǀsi̯ū > *axɔ^ǀs”

[2] Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 57: “Olr. accuiss ‘cause’ W. achos : Lat. occāsio”

[3] Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “accais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language