spedhas

Cornish

Etymology

From Middle Cornish spethas, spethes, from Proto-Brythonic *spɨðad, from Proto-Celtic *skʷiyats (“hawthorn”), from Proto-Indo-European *skwey-. See also Breton spezad, English surname Skeen.[1]

Noun

spedhas (collective, singulative spedhasen f)

  1. briars

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “skwiyat”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 339
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