Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gnīmus

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

Related to *gniyeti (“to do, make”). Contains a suffix *-mus.

Noun

*gnīmus m^[1]

doing, act, action
work

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gnīmus	*gnīmū	*gnīmowes
vocative	*gnīmu	*gnīmū	*gnīmūs
accusative	*gnīmum	*gnīmū	*gnīmums
genitive	*gnīmous	*gnīmous	*gnīmowom
dative	*gnīmou	*gnīmubom	*gnīmubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*gnīmū	*gnīmubim	*gnīmubis

Derived terms

*uɸognīmus

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *gniβ̃
- Breton: niñv (“affliction”)
- Middle Welsh: gnif
  - Welsh: gnif
Old Irish: gním
- Middle Irish: gním
  - Irish: gníomh
    - → English: gneeve
  - Scottish Gaelic: gnìomh

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gnīmu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 163

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gnīmu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 163

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