< Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/per
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pira, plural of pirum. In Vulgar Latin pira was reanalysed as a feminine singular (*pira), but the plural number of *per suggests that this is not the form that underlies the borrowing into Brythonic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpeːr/
Noun
*per f pl (singulative *perenn)
- pears
Descendants
- Middle Breton: per
- Breton: per
- Old Cornish: *per (in compound)
- Middle Cornish: per
- Cornish: per
- Middle Cornish: per
- Middle Welsh: per
- Welsh: pêr
References
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pêr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies