Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus

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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”).

Noun

*bʰébʰrus m

1. beaver

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Proto-Balto-Slavic: *bébrus (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Celtic: *bebrus[1]
  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Old Breton: beuer
    • Welsh: befer
  • Old Irish: Bibar
  • →? Late Latin: beber (see there for further descendants)
  • ⇒? *bibrakti (collective), *bebrakti
    • →? Latin: Bibracte
• Proto-Germanic: *bebruz (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *bʰábʰruš[2] (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Italic: *febros
  • Latin: fiber

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “bebru-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 59
2. Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 153

• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN