Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bakkos

This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic edit

Etymology edit

Unknown. Historically linked^[1] to Latin baculum (“staff, rod”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *bak-. Matasović assumes a wanderword origin.

Noun edit

*bakkos m^[2]

hook, (curved) stick

Declension edit

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bakkos	*bakkou	*bakkoi
vocative	*bakke	*bakkou	*bakkūs
accusative	*bakkom	*bakkou	*bakkoms
genitive	*bakkī	*bakkous	*bakkom
dative	*bakkūi	*bakkobom	*bakkobos
locative	*bakkei	*?	*?
instrumental	*bakkū	*bakkobim	*bakkūis

Descendants edit

Proto-Brythonic:
- Old Breton: bah
  - Middle Breton: bach
    - Breton: bac'h
- Cornish: bagh
- Old Welsh: bach
  - Middle Welsh: bach
    - Welsh: bach
Old Irish: bacc

References edit

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 93
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bakko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 52

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 93

[EDPC-2] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bakko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 52

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