dwrn

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Welsh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Breton dorn (hand), Old Irish dorn (fist)), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Noun

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dwrn m (plural dyrnau)

  1. fist
  2. handle, knob

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dwrn ddwrn nwrn unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN