Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/swesūr

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *swésōr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈswe.suːr/

Noun

*swesūr f

sister

Declension

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*swesūr	*swesre	*swesres
vocative	*swesūr	*swesre	*swesres
accusative	*swesram	*swesre	*swesrās
genitive	*swesros	*swesrou	*swesrom
dative	*swesrē	*swesrobom	*swesrobos
instrumental	*swesre?	*swesrobim	*swesrobis

Descendants

Brythonic: *hwehir
- Old Breton: guoer
  - Middle Breton: hoer
    - Breton: c'hoar
- Old Cornish: huir
  - Cornish: hwoer
- Middle Welsh: chwaer
  - Welsh: chwaer
Old Irish: siur, derbsiur
- Irish: siúr, deirfiúr
- Manx: shuyr
- Scottish Gaelic: piuthar (back-formed from lenited form fiur, phiur)
Gaulish: suiorebe (instrumental plural)

References

Peter Schrijver, Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995), 388.

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