Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dubros

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰubʰrós (“dark”), from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).

Adjective

*dubros[1]

dark

Noun

*dubros m[2]

water

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dubros	*dubrou	*dubroi
vocative	*dubre	*dubrou	*dubrūs
accusative	*dubrom	*dubrou	*dubroms
genitive	*dubrī	*dubrous	*dubrom
dative	*dubrūi	*dubrobom	*dubrobos
locative	*dubrei	*?	*?
instrumental	*dubrū	*dubrobim	*dubrūis

Derived terms

*dubrokū

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *duβr
- Middle Breton: dour
  - Breton: dour
- Cornish: dowr
- Middle Welsh: dwfyr
  - Welsh: dwfr, dŵr
Old Irish: dobur
- Irish: dobhar
- ⇒ Middle Irish: dobrán
  - Irish: dobhrán
  - Scottish Gaelic: dòbhran
Gaulish: Dubra, Uerbo-dubrum
Celtiberian:
- → Galician: Dubra

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*dubro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 107-108
Wodtko, Dagmar S.; Irslinger, Britta; Schneider, Carolin (2008), “*dʰeu̯b-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 122-124

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*dubro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 107-108

[2] Wodtko, Dagmar S.; Irslinger, Britta; Schneider, Carolin (2008), “*dʰeu̯b-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 122-124