< Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gwɨrð
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin virdis, a form attested in the Appendix Probi, from Latin viridis.
Adjective
*gwɨrð
- green, verdant
Descendants
- Old Breton: [Term?]
- Breton: gwerzh (dialectical)
- ⇒ Middle Breton: guezr (with metathesis, influenced by guezr (“glass”))
- Breton: gwer
- Old Cornish: guirt
- Middle Cornish: gwirdh
- Cornish: gwyrdh
- >? Middle Cornish: gwer
- Cornish: gwer
- Middle Cornish: gwirdh
- Old Welsh: guird
- Middle Welsh: gwyrd, gwyrdd
- Welsh: gwyrdd
- Middle Welsh: gwyrd, gwyrdd
Related terms
- *glas
References
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gwyrdd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies