Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸrossos

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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸrossos

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 *prosth₂os (“protruding”). The same construction as Sanskrit प्रस्थ (prastha, “plateau”), but probably coined separately in the two languages.[1]

Noun

*ɸrossos m

1. a height
2. elevated land
3. (wooded) hill

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *rros
  • Middle Breton: ros
  • Cornish: ros
  • Middle Welsh: ros
    • Welsh: rhos
• Old Irish: ros
  • Irish: ros (“wood”)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ros (“promontory”)

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 142