Where does “brewys” come from?

brewys (Cornish) comes from Cornish brewi, from Cornish i, from English eyes, from Proto-Indo-European éy, from Proto-Indo-European h₁e-.

brewys (Cornish): mashed

Definitions

  1. mashed

Ancestry of “brewys”, step by step

brewys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Cornish brewi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishbrewito bruise
2Cornishithey
3Englisheyesplural of eye; Third-person singular simple...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanéythe; demonstrative pronoun; this one, he
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁e-—

via Cornish ys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishyscorn

Words derived from “brewys”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁e- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European éy →Every word from English eyes →