Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/edennos

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

Unknown; possibly from earlier *ɸedennos, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-n̥-no-s, from *ped- (“to bind, tie, restrain”).

Noun

*edennos m

1. ivy

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ɸedennos	*ɸedennou	*ɸedennoi
vocative	*ɸedenne	*ɸedennou	*ɸedennūs
accusative	*ɸedennom	*ɸedennou	*ɸedennoms
genitive	*ɸedennī	*ɸedennous	*ɸedennom
dative	*ɸedennūi	*ɸedennobom	*ɸedennobos
locative	*ɸedennei	*?	*?
instrumental	*ɸedennū	*ɸedennobim	*ɸedennūis

Alternative reconstructions

• *ɸedennos

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *eðenn
  • Middle Breton: ilieavenn
    • Breton: iliav, ilio, iliavenn (sgv.)
  • Cornish: idhyow, idhyo, idhyowen (sgv.)
  • Middle Welsh: eido, eiddio
    • Welsh: eiddew, eiddo
• Old Irish: eiden, eidenn
  • Irish: eidheann
  • >? Manx: hibbin
  • Scottish Gaelic: eidheann

Further reading

• Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 36
• Williams, Robert (1865) “idhio”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page 225
• Cornillet, Gérard (2017) “iliav”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 787