Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wiros

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wīros

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 *wiHrós.

Noun edit

*wiros m

man
husband

Declension edit

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*wiros	*wirou	*wiroi
vocative	*wire	*wirou	*wirūs
accusative	*wirom	*wirou	*wiroms
genitive	*wirī	*wirous	*wirom
dative	*wirūi	*wirobom	*wirobos
locative	*wirei	*?	*?
instrumental	*wirū	*wirobim	*wirūis

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Brythonic: *gwur
- Middle Breton: *gur
  - Breton: gour
- Old Cornish: uir
  - Cornish: gour
- Old Welsh: gur
  - Middle Welsh: gwr
    - Welsh: gŵr
Primitive Irish: *ᚃᚔᚏᚐᚄ (*viras)
- Old Irish: fer
  - Middle Irish: fer
    - Irish: fear
    - Manx: fer
    - Scottish Gaelic: fear
Gaulish: *wiros
Celtiberian: [Term?] (UIROS)^[1]

References edit

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 423

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 423

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