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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/lluss
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Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *lussus.
Noun
*lluss m
- herb
Derived terms
- *dexouluss
Descendants
- Middle Breton: lousaou pl
- Breton: louzoù
- Old Cornish: les
- Middle Cornish: leys sg, losow pl
- Cornish: les sg, losow pl
- Middle Cornish: leys sg, losow pl
- Middle Welsh: llysyeu pl
- Welsh: llys sg, llysiau, llysau pl
Further reading
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*lussu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 249
- Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 50
- Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 110
- Cornillet, Gérard (2017), “louzaouenn”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 1068
- Williams, Robert (1865), “les”, 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 234