benyw

Welsh

Etymology

Nominalized adjective, perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *banujos,[1]masculine derived from Proto-Celtic *ban-, whence Welsh banon ‘maiden queen’, Old Breton ban-doiuis ‘goddess’, Old Irish ban-chú ‘female dog’;[2] akin to Cornish benow ‘feminine, female’.[3] Further related to Old Welsh ben ‘woman’, from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Doublet of banw ‘female’.

Noun

benyw f (plural benywod)

woman
female

Synonyms

Mutation

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

References

Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 298
Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 61.
Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger & Carolin Schneider, eds., Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008), 178, 180n7.

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[1] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 298

[2] Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 61.

[3] Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger & Carolin Schneider, eds., Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008), 178, 180n7.