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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gwoɨθ
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Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly a back-formation from *gwoɨθhaβ̃. Alternatively cognate with with Middle Irish facht (“malice?”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡwaɨ̯θ/
Adjective
*gwoɨθ
- comparative degree of *gwoɨl (“bad”): worse
Descendants
- Middle Breton: goaz
- Breton: gwazh
- Cornish: gweth
- Middle Welsh: gwaeth
- Welsh: gwaeth
Further reading
- Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 246
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 132
- Koch, John (2004), “bad *waxto-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 22
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*waxto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 405