Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-oβ̃
See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/-ọβ̃
Proto-Brythonic
editEtymology
editFrom earlier *-omā, from the thematic present vowel + *-mā as abstracted from *-dīmā. See *-iβ̃.
Pronunciation
editSuffix
edit*-oβ̃
- Forms verbal nouns, originally from thematic present verbs.
Related terms
editDescendants
edit*-omā was secondarily lengthened to *-ʉ̄mā in West Brythonic, based on the long vowels of *-īma, *-āmā.
References
edit- Stefan Schumacher (2000), The Historical Morphology of the Welsh Verbal Noun, Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics IV, The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, page 135-136