Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/lleɣenn

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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/lleɣenn

This Proto-Brythonic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 legendum, legendā.[1] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish léigenn (“studying, learning”).[2]

Noun

*lleɣenn ?[3]

1. literature, learning

Descendants

• Middle Breton: lenn, leenn
  • ⇒ Middle Breton: lenn, leenn (“to read”)
    • Breton: lenn
• Middle Cornish: lyen
  • Cornish: lien
• Middle Welsh: lleen, llen
  • Welsh: llên

Further reading

• Williams, Robert (1865), “lyen”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page 241

References

1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 69
2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “léigenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
3. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “llên”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies: “*lleʒen(n)”