< Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/mėgin
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Unknown; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *magô (“stomach”), Russian мошна (mošna, “pouch, purse”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mak-.[1]
Noun
*mėgin f
- bellows
Descendants
- Middle Breton: meguin
- Breton: megin, begin
- Old Cornish: mygen
- Cornish: mygenow, meginow pl
- Middle Welsh: megin
- Welsh: megin
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages *makīnā–254