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Middle Welsh

bot

/bod/ · verb

Meaning

  1. to be

Etymology / origin

From Proto-Brythonic *bod, from Proto-Celtic *butā (cf. Cornish bos, Breton bout), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”); all the b- initial forms are from the same root. The vowel-initial forms are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). The third-person singular present mae originally meant “here is” and is from the same source as yma (“here”) plus Proto-Celtic *esti. The third-person plural maent, maen is derived from the singular by adding the third-person plural verb ending -nt.

  1. *esti(cel-pro)→
  2. *h₁es-(ine-pro)→
  3. *bʰuH-(ine-pro)→
  4. bout(br)→
  5. bos(Cornish)→
  6. *butā(cel-pro)→
  7. *bod(cel-bry-pro)→
  8. *bʰuH-(ine-pro)→
  9. bot (Middle Welsh)
  10. Relations: root, der, der, cog, cog, der, der, der

Related words

*bʰuH-(ine-pro)*bod(cel-bry-pro)*butā(cel-pro)bos(Cornish)bout(br)*h₁es-(ine-pro)*esti(cel-pro)both(Irish)bod(Welsh)

Descendant words

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