Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-oβ̃

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-ọβ̃

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

From earlier *-omā, from the thematic present vowel + *-mā as abstracted from *-dīmā. See *-iβ̃.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oβ̃/

Suffix

*-oβ̃

Forms verbal nouns, originally from thematic present verbs.

Related terms

*-aβ̃
*-iβ̃
*-ọβ̃

Descendants

*-omā was secondarily lengthened to *-ʉ̄mā in West Brythonic, based on the long vowels of *-īma, *-āmā.

West Brythonic: *-üβ̃
- Middle Welsh: -u
  - Welsh: -u
Old Breton: -om

References

Stefan Schumacher (2000), The Historical Morphology of the Welsh Verbal Noun, Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics IV, The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, page 135-136