Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dī

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 Proto-Indo-European *déh₁, whence also Latin dē.

Preposition

*dī

1. from

   Synonym: *au

Derived terms

• *dī-

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *di (“from”)
  • Middle Cornish: de, dy, dhe (attested in partitive use)
    • ⇒ Cornish: dyworth
  • Old Welsh: di (a hapax, do not confuse with the homonym meaning "to, for")
    • ⇒ Welsh: oddi (used to make more complex prepositions)
• Old Irish: di, de
  • Irish: de
  • Manx: jeh
  • Scottish Gaelic: de

Further reading

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 97