Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bussus
Proto-Celtic
editEtymology
editUncertain, possibly a sound-symbolic word.[1]
Noun
edit*bussus m
Inflection
editMasculine/feminine u-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *bussus | *bussū | *bussowes |
vocative | *bussu | *bussū | *bussūs |
accusative | *bussum | *bussū | *bussuns |
genitive | *bussous | *bussous | *bussowom |
dative | *bussou | *bussubom | *bussubos |
locative | *? | *? | *? |
instrumental | *bussū | *bussubim | *bussubis |
Descendants
edit- ⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *gweβus
- Middle Irish: bus (poetic)
- Gaulish: *bussus
- ⇒ Gaulish: bussumāros (epithet of Jupiter)
References
edit- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “bussu-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 95