Reconstruction talk:Proto-Celtic/brīgos

Etymology
There is no convincing way to get this from any more than there is from, since  gives  with a short i, and this word unambiguously has long ī. PC ī can pretty much go back only to PIE iH or ē/eh₁, so only (if such a root exists) can get us there. I guess would work phonologically as well, but the semantics would required some fancy footwork. And I wonder about (< ?) as well. —Mahāgaja · talk 10:08, 16 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Well, no, because *gʷreh₂-G- > *gʷrih₂-G- is impossible, and *gʷr̥h₂-G- would've yielded *brāg-. Trying to reconcile a long vowel from an expected short one is much easier. Semantically, a derivation from is pretty uncomplicated, compare Sanskrit cognate  to . --   19:52, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
 * To work it out a little more and try and reconcile the long -ī-, we could start with *bʰrēG-, from *bʰréG-s-s ~ *bʰréG-s, which could derive from a liquid metathesized form of . -- 20:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)