< Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic
Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/swesūr
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswe.suːr/
Noun
*swesūr f
- sister
Declension
| Masculine/feminine consonant stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *swesūr | *swesre | *swesres |
| vocative | *swesūr | *swesre | *swesres |
| accusative | *swesram | *swesre | *swesrās |
| genitive | *swesros | *swesrou | *swesrom |
| dative | *swesrē | *swesrobom | *swesrobos |
| instrumental | *swesre? | *swesrobim | *swesrobis |
Descendants
- Brythonic: *hwehir
- Old Breton: guoer
- Middle Breton: hoer
- Breton: c'hoar
- Middle Breton: hoer
- Old Cornish: huir
- Cornish: hwoer
- Middle Welsh: chwaer
- Welsh: chwaer
- Old Breton: guoer
- Old Irish: siur, derbsiur
- Irish: siúr, deirfiúr
- Manx: shuyr
- Scottish Gaelic: piuthar (back-formed from lenited form fiur, phiur)
- Gaulish: suiorebe (instrumental plural)
References
- Peter Schrijver, Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995), 388.