Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/enter

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 *h₁entér. Cognate with Latin inter, Proto-Germanic *under, Sanskrit अन्तर् (antar) and Albanian ndër.[1]

Preposition

*enter

between

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *ɨntr
- Old Breton: entr-
  - Middle Breton: entre, intre
    - Breton: etre
- Middle Cornish: yntre, ynter
  - Cornish: yntra, ynter
- Old Welsh: ithr
Old Irish: etar-, eter
- Irish: idir
- Manx: eddyr
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar
Gaulish: entar-
Celtiberian: entara

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 117

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 117