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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/eβengɨl

This Proto-Brythonic 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-Brythonic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin evangelium (“gospel”),[1] itself borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “bringing good news”), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”), equivalent to *hu- (“good”) +‎ *angel (“angel, messenger (of God)”). Old Irish adopted the calque soiscélae, from so- (“good”) +‎ scél (“news”).

Noun

*eβengɨl m

  1. (Christianity) gospel

Descendants
  • Breton: aviel
  • Old Cornish: aweil
    • Middle Cornish: awayl
      • Cornish: aweyl
  • Middle Welsh: euegyl, *efengyll

Further reading
  • Williams, Robert (1865) “awayl”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page 397
  • Cornillet, Gérard (2017) “aviel”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 106

References
  1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 98: “*au̯ai̯el < *au̯angel (Jackson 1967: 793 on *-ng- > Co. Β *-i̯-) < Lat. evangelium”
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