"griyano-" meaning in Proto-Celtic

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Noun

Forms: griyano- gender unattested [canonical]
Etymology: Uncertain, as relating this word to anything presents phonetic difficulties, and the reconstruction of the Celtic word itself is highly uncertain. The current entry title *griyano- is not an endorsement of that reconstruction and was selected arbitrarily. * Attempting to derive from *gʰreh₁w- (whence also Proto-Celtic *grāwā), Matasović posits a *gʰreh₁w-yos as an intermediary; but *-wy- normally does not assimilate to *-yy- in Celtic the way he suggests. * Stifter seeks to relate this word to Middle Irish grinnell (“bed of body of water; gravel”), and thus reconstructs either *grisano- or *gresano- and invokes an ad hoc early syncope of the second vowel for grinnell to get the -nn-. This word's gender is ambiguous in both Goidelic and Brittonic, making recovering the original gender impossible. Etymology templates: {{m+|cel-pro|*grāwā}} Proto-Celtic *grāwā, {{m+|mga|grinnell|t=bed of body of water; gravel}} Middle Irish grinnell (“bed of body of water; gravel”) Head templates: {{head|cel-pro|noun|cat2=|g=g!|g2=|g3=|head=}} *griyano- gender unattested
  1. gravel Wikipedia link: Brill Publishers Tags: reconstruction Synonyms: *grāwā
    Sense id: en-griyano--cel-pro-noun-NrJpDd01 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Celtic entries with incorrect language header
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