Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gurmos

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

Unknown; presumably borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate source since there are no cognates outside Celtic.^[1]

Adjective edit

*gurmos

dun, dark, blue

Inflection edit

O/ā-stem
masculine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gurmos	*gurmou	*gurmoi
vocative	*gurme	*gurmou	*gurmoi
accusative	*gurmom	*gurmou	*gurmoms
genitive	*gurmī	*gurmous	*gurmom
dative	*gurmūi	*gurmobom	*gurmobos
instrumental	*gurmū	*gurmobim	*gurmobis
feminine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gurmā	*gurmai	*gurmās
vocative	*gurmā	*gurmai	*gurmās
accusative	*gurmam	*gurmai	*gurmams
genitive	*gurmās	*gurmous	*gurmom
dative	*gurmai	*gurmābom	*gurmābos
instrumental	*?	*gurmābim	*gurmābis
neuter	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gurmom	*gurmou	*gurmā
vocative	*gurmom	*gurmou	*gurmā
accusative	*gurmom	*gurmou	*gurmā
genitive	*gurmī	*gurmous	*gurmom
dative	*gurmūi	*gurmobom	*gurmobos
instrumental	*gurmū	*gurmobim	*gurmobis

Descendants edit

Brythonic: *gurm
- Old Breton: Uurm-haelon (literally “with dark brows”)
- Cornish: gorm
- Welsh: gwrm
Middle Irish: gorm
- Irish: gorm
- Manx: gorrym
- Scottish Gaelic: gorm

References edit

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 169

bānos, loukos, *windos	*ɸlētos	*dubus
roudos; dergos	*dusnos	blāwos, melinos
	*glastos
		*gurmos