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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/tɨner
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Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tener (“soft, tender, delicate”).[1] Parallel borrowing with Cornish tender (“sensitive, tender”).
Noun
*tɨner m
- soft, tender, delicate
Descendants
- Breton: tener
- Middle Welsh: tyner
- Welsh: tyner
Further reading
- Cornillet, Gérard (2017), “tener”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 1537
References
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 36