Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/tad

This Proto-Brythonic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Brythonic

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tatos, of nursery/expressive origin. Compare Latin tata.

Noun

*tad m (plural *tėd)

father

Coordinate terms

*mab (“son”)
*mamm (“mother”)
*merx (“daughter”)

Descendants

Middle Breton: tat
- Breton: tad (“father”), tata (“dad”)
Old Cornish: tat (c. 1250)
- Cornish: tas, tat
Middle Welsh: tad
- Welsh: tad (“father”), dada (“dad”)

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