Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/uɸoberā

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

Prefixed with *uɸo-, see *komberos for further etymology and related terms.

Noun

*uɸoberā f

  1. stream
    Synonym: *srouman

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *uɸoberā *uɸoberai *uɸoberās
vocative *uɸoberā *uɸoberai *uɸoberās
accusative *uɸoberam *uɸoberai *uɸoberāns
genitive *uɸoberās *uɸoberous *uɸoberom
dative *uɸoberāi *uɸoberābom *uɸoberābos
locative *uɸoberai *? *?
instrumental *? *uɸoberābim *uɸoberābis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *gwoβ̃er
    • Middle Breton: gouher, gouver
    • Old Cornish: guuer
    • Middle Welsh: gouer
  • Middle Irish: fobar (“well, spring”)
    • Irish: fobhar
  • Gaulish: *uabera
    • → French: Vaivre, Vavre, Voivre, Vaure, Woëvre, Vabre, Vèvre, Vesvres, Lavaur
    • → German: Waber

Further reading

  • Matasović, Ranko (December 2011) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎[1], Zagreb
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “uobera, uoberno-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 325
  • Stalmaszczyk, Piotr, Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz (1993) “Studies in Indo-European Vocabulary”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 98, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 24-39
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