Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dubros

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 *dʰubʰrós (“dark”), from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).

Adjective

*dubros^[1]

dark

Noun

*dubros m^[2]

water
Synonym: (Goidelic) *udenskyos

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dubros	*dubrou	*dubroi
vocative	*dubre	*dubrou	*dubroi
accusative	*dubrom	*dubrou	*dubrons
genitive	*dubrī	*dubrous	*dubrom
dative	*dubrūi	*dubrobom	*dubrobos
locative	*dubrei	*?	*?
instrumental	*dubrū	*dubrobim	*dubrūis

Derived terms

*dubrokū

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *duβr
- Middle Breton: dour
  - Breton: dour
- Cornish: dowr
- Middle Welsh: dwfyr, dwfuyr, dwr, dwuyr, dwvyr, dyfwr
  - Welsh: dwfr, dŵr
Old Irish: dobur
- Irish: dobhar
- ⇒ Middle Irish: dobrán
  - Irish: dobhrán
  - Scottish Gaelic: dòbhran
Gaulish: Dubra, Uerbo-dubrum
- French: Douvres
Gallaecian:
- Latin: Durius
  - Old Galician-Portuguese: Doiro, Doyro
    - Portuguese: Douro
  - Spanish: Duero
- → Galician: Dubra

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dubro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 107-108
^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*dʰeu̯b-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 122-124

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dubro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 107-108

[2] Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*dʰeu̯b-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 122-124

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