< Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/huɨr
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sērus (“late, slow”).[1][2] Doublet of *hir (“long, tall”).
Adjective
*huɨr
- late
Descendants
- Middle Welsh: hwyr
- Welsh: hwyr
References
- Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 59: “W. hwyr ‘evening, late’ : Lat. sērus”
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*sīro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 337