< Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/pal
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly either borrowed from Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”),[1] or inherited from Proto-Celtic *kʷalos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel(h₁)- (“to turn”).[2][3]
Noun
*pal m
- shovel, spade
Derived terms
- *palad
- *paladr
- *palọg
- Old Welsh: pelechi
Descendants
- Breton: pal, bal
- Cornish: pal
- Middle Welsh: pal
- Welsh: pal
References
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 83
- Falileyev, Alexander (2000), “pelechi”, in Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 129
- Koch, John (2004), “dig (*kʷal-e/o-)”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies