Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gwuɨl

This Proto-Brythonic 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-Brythonic

Etymology 1

From earlier *gwēl, from *gwɨɣl, borrowed from Vulgar Latin viglia, from Latin vigilia (“watch, vigil”).[1] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish féil (“festival, feast day”),[2] Middle Irish figel, figell (“vigil”).[3]

Noun

*gwuɨl f[1]

  1. feast, feast day
  2. vigil
Descendants
  • Breton: gouel
  • Cornish: goel
  • Middle Welsh: gwyl

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“curtain, veil; sail of a ship”).[4] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish fíal (“veil, curtain”).[5]

Noun

*gwuɨl m

  1. curtain
  2. sail of a ship
Descendants
  • Breton: gouel
  • Middle Cornish: goyl

Further reading

  • Koch, John (2004) “feast *weili-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎[1], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 241: “*u̯ēli̯a or -i̯on < *uïγli̯a, -i̯on”
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “féil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “figel(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 225
  5. ^ Williams, Robert (1865) “189”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page guil
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