Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sembrenketi

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

A compound of Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”), *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), and *h₂neḱ- (“to reach, bring”), probably through a stage where the latter two roots were concatenated into one (compare Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”)).[1]

Verb

*sembrenketi

to accompany, escort

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Breton: hambrouc
  - Breton: ambroug
- Cornish: hembronk
- Middle Welsh: hebrwng
  - Welsh: hebrwng

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*brenk-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 76

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*brenk-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 76