Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/blātus
Proto-Celtic
editEtymology
editFrom earlier *bʰléh₃tus ~ *bʰl̥h₃téw-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-.
Noun
edit*blātus m[1]
Inflection
editMasculine/feminine u-stem | |||
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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
edit- Proto-Brythonic: *blọd
- Gaulish: *blātōnā, blātunā, Blātumagos
- → Medieval Latin: blādōna
- Italian: belladonna (through folk etymological reanalysis)
- → Medieval Latin: blādōna
- Old Irish: bláth[2]
References
edit- ^ 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