Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bardos

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

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-dʰh₁o- (“praise-maker”), from *gʷerH- (“to approve, praise”) +‎ *dʰeh₁- (“to do, make”), with a loss of the laryngeal in *gʷerH-.^[1]

Noun edit

*bardos m

poet, bard

Inflection edit

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bardos	*bardou	*bardoi
vocative	*barde	*bardou	*bardūs
accusative	*bardom	*bardou	*bardoms
genitive	*bardī	*bardous	*bardom
dative	*bardūi	*bardobom	*bardobos
locative	*bardei	*?	*?
instrumental	*bardū	*bardobim	*bardūis

Descendants edit

Proto-Brythonic: *barð
- Middle Breton: barz
  - Breton: barzh
- Old Cornish: barth
  - Cornish: bardh
- Middle Welsh: bardd
  - Welsh: bardd
Old Irish: bard
- Irish: bard
- Manx: bard
- Scottish Gaelic: bàrd
  - → English: bard
→ Latin: bardus
- → French: barde
  - → Esperanto: bardo
  - → Finnish: bardi
  - → German: Barde
- → Hungarian: bárd
- → Italian: bardo
- → Portuguese: bardo
- → Spanish: bardo

References edit

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 56-7

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 56-7

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