< Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/llɨβr
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin lĭbrum, from Latin lībrum, accusative singular of līber (“book”).[1] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish lebor (“book”).
Noun
*llɨβr m
- book
Descendants
- Old Breton: libr
- Middle Breton: leor
- Breton: levr
- Middle Breton: leor
- Middle Cornish: lyver
- Cornish: lyver
- Middle Welsh: llyuyr
- Welsh: llyfr
Further reading
- Williams, Robert (1865), “liver”, 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 236
- Cornillet, Gérard (2017), “levr”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 1037
References
- Lewis, Henry; Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 59, 77