huzel

Breton

Alternative forms
  • huzil, huzilh

Etymology

From Brito-Latin hybrid *sūdikul (compare Cornish hudhygel, Welsh huddygl), from Proto-Celtic *sūdiā (compare Old Irish suide), from Proto-Indo-European *suh₃d-, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *sh₃ud- (compare English soot).[1]

Noun

huzel f

  1. soot

References
  1. Nicholas Zair, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 124-5.
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