Proto-Celtic

*birros

‘short’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Celtic *birros.

4 English words in this record descend from Proto-Celtic *birros, most familiar first.

• beret ← Occitan ← berret ← birretum ← birrus
• birrus ← *birros
• burnoose ← burnous ← بُرْنُس ← βίρρος ← birrus
• sbirro ← birro ← birrus

Etymograph / Proto-Celtic *birros