Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/branos

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 edit

Etymology edit

Possibly cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *warnás (“raven”). In view of the formal difficulty that a change of *wr- to *br- would be irregular in Celtic, Matasović considers it more likely that this is a loanword from an unknown (substrate?) source.

Noun edit

*branos m^[1]

crow, raven

Inflection edit

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*branos	*branou	*branoi
vocative	*brane	*branou	*branūs
accusative	*branom	*branou	*branoms
genitive	*branī	*branous	*branom
dative	*branūi	*branobom	*branobos
locative	*branei	*?	*?
instrumental	*branū	*branobim	*branūis

Descendants edit

Brythonic: *bran
- Middle Breton: bran
  - Breton: bran
- Middle Cornish: bran
  - Cornish: bran
- Middle Welsh: bran
  - Welsh: brân f
Gaulish: Branodūnon (toponymy?)
Primitive Irish: ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana)
- Old Irish: bran^[2]
  - Irish: bran
  - Scottish Gaelic: bran

References edit

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73/74
^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[Matasovic-1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73/74

[DIL-2] G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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