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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/sux
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sukkos (“pig; snout (of a pig); plowshare”), under the influence of, if not borrowed from, Vulgar Latin *soccus (“plowshare”) (whence Old French soc, soket), itself borrowed from Celtic.[1][2][3][4] Doublet of *hux (“pig”).
Noun
*sux m
- plowshare
Descendants
- Middle Breton: souch
- Breton: soc’h
- Welsh: swch
References
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1884), “soc”, in Keltoromanisches, die keltischen etymologieen im etymologischen worterbuch der romanischen sprachen von F. Diez (in German), Halle: Max Niemeyer, page 112: “kelt. *sŭccos”
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), “sū̆-s, suu̯-ós”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1038
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “*sū́s”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 425: “Celtic < *sukko-”
- Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 158