Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/banowessā

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

Etymology

From *bano- (“female”) +‎ *wedeti (“to lead”) +‎ *-tā (verbal noun suffix).^[1] The last two parts of this construction are frequently confused with *westā (“staying the night, feast”).

Noun

*banowessā f^[2]

wedding

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*banowessā	*banowessai	*banowessās
vocative	*banowessā	*banowessai	*banowessās
accusative	*banowessam	*banowessai	*banowessāms
genitive	*banowessās	*banowessous	*banowessom
dative	*banowessāi	*banowessābom	*banowessābos
locative	*banowessai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*banowessābim	*banowessābis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *banwess
- Middle Breton: banues
  - Breton: banvez
Old Irish: banais
- Irish: bainis
- Manx: bannish
- Scottish Gaelic: banais

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb, page 3
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb, page 3

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

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