< Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic
Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dwār
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr.
Noun
*dwār m
- door
Declension
Originally an ablauting paradigm following the Proto-Indo-European ancestor:
- Accusative singular: *dworam (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwórm̥)
- Genitive singular: *duros (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰurós, *dʰurés)
Derived terms
- *dworestus (see there for further descendants)
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *dor (from Early Brythonic *dorā, generalized from the accusative *dworam)
- Middle Breton: dor
- Breton: dor
- Cornish: dor, darat
- Old Welsh: dor
- Middle Welsh: dor
- Welsh: dôr
- Middle Welsh: dor
- Middle Breton: dor
- Gaulish: *durom (generalized from the genitive *duros)
- → Latin: Augustodurum
- → Latin: Nemetodurum
- French: Nanterre
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*dworā, *duro-, *dworestu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 111–12