Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/koɨd

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

From Proto-Celtic *kaitos, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, wasteland”), as well as perhaps Latin bū-cētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”), Albanian kath (“type of wheat”), kashtë (“straw”),

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkoɨ̯d/

Noun

*koɨd m

wood, forest

Derived terms

*argoɨd

Descendants

Middle Breton: coat
- Breton: koad
Old Cornish: cuit
- Middle Cornish: coys
  - Cornish: koos
Old Welsh: coit
- Welsh: coed

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kayto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 198

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