Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/büβal

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 būbalus (“buffalo, antelope”). Parallel borrowing with Old Irish búaball (“buffalo”).

Noun

*büβal m[1]

buffalo
drinking-horn

Descendants

Middle Breton: bual
- Breton: bual
Cornish: bual
Middle Welsh: bual
- Welsh: bual

References

Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 148: “Lat. būbalus > LPBr. *Βüβal”

[1] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 148: “Lat. būbalus > LPBr. *Βüβal”