Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/blātus

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 earlier *bʰléh₃tus ~ *bʰl̥h₃téw-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-.

Noun

*blātus m^[1]

flower, blossom

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*blātus	*blātū	*blātowes
vocative	*blātu	*blātū	*blātūs
accusative	*blātum	*blātū	*blātums
genitive	*blātous	*blātous	*blātowom
dative	*blātou	*blātubom	*blātubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*blātū	*blātubim	*blātubis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *blọd
- Old Breton: bloduu
  - Middle Breton: bleuzff
    - Breton: bleuñv
- Old Cornish: blodon
  - Cornish: bleujen
- Middle Welsh: blawt
  - Welsh: blawd, blodyn
Gaulish: *blātōnā, blātunā, Blātumagos
- → Medieval Latin: blādōna
  - Italian: belladonna (through folk etymological reanalysis)
Old Irish: bláth^[2]
- Irish: bláth
- Manx: blaa
- Scottish Gaelic: blàth

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*blātu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 67/68
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bláth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[Matasovic-1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*blātu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 67/68

[DIL-2] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bláth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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