< Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/spɨrɨd
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin spīritus. Parallel borrowing with Old Irish spirut (“spirit”).[1]
Noun
*spɨrɨd m[2]
- spirit
Descendants
- Breton: spered
- Middle Cornish: sperys
- Cornish: spyrys
- Middle Welsh: yspryt
- Welsh: yspryd
References
- Williams, Robert (1865), “spirit”, 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 234
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 16: “PBr. *spiriǀtus > LPBr. *spïrïǀd”