Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/blēdanī
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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
editEtymology
editRelated to synonymous *blēdū, but with no known Indo-European cognates. Matasović says Pennaod’s connection of this word with Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale”) (compare Old Church Slavonic блѣдъ (blědŭ, “pale”), Old English blāt (“pale”), Lithuanian blaĩvas (“whitish”) “is possible formally…[but] the semantic connection is weak.” Stokes suggests Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ- (“to glide”) (Proto-Germanic *glīdaną), but MacBain writes that an evolution of ǵʰ- into Celtic b- is doubtful.[1][2]
Noun
edit*blēdanī f
Declension
edit| Feminine ī/yā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *blēdanī | *blēdanī | *blēdanyās |
| vocative | *blēdanī | *blēdanī | *blēdanyās |
| accusative | *blēdanīm | *blēdanī | *blēdanīms |
| genitive | *blēdanyās | *blēdanyous | *blēdanyom |
| dative | *blēdanyai | *blēdanyābom | *blēdanyābos |
| locative | *? | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *? | *blēdanyābim | *blēdanyābis |
Descendants
edit- Proto-Brythonic: *bluɨðėn
- Proto-Brythonic: *blɨneð (earlier *blɨðneð < nominative plural *blēdanyās)
- Old Irish: blíadain
Further reading
edit- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*blēdanī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
- Pennaod, Jord (1986) “La désignation de l’année en celtique [The designation of the year in Celtic]”, in Études Celtiques (in French), volume 23, pages 53–56
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 242–46
References
edit- ^ Stokes, Whitley, Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1894) Urkeltischer Sprachschatz (Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen; Zweiter Theil) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 188
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “bliadhna”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN