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

Etymology

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-.

Noun

*bardos m

1. poet, bard

Inflection

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

• 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
  • → Galician: bardo
  • → Hungarian: bárd
  • → Italian: bardo
  • → Portuguese: bardo
  • → Spanish: bardo