Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kēliyos
Proto-Celtic
editEtymology
editUncertain.[1] Possibly originally meaning "wayfarer," from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to settle”), similar to the sense development of Old Irish séitig (“wife”) from *sentus (“way, path”).[2] Stokes instead compares Latin cacula (“servant”).[3]
Noun
editInflection
editMasculine o-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *kēliyos | *kēliyou | *kēliyoi |
vocative | *kēliye | *kēliyou | *kēliyūs |
accusative | *kēliyom | *kēliyou | *kēliyoms |
genitive | *kēliyī | *kēliyous | *kēliyom |
dative | *kēliyūi | *kēliyobom | *kēliyobos |
locative | *kēliyei | *? | *? |
instrumental | *kēliyū | *kēliyobim | *kēliyūis |
Reconstruction notes
edit- Matasović claims that the Brittonic forms must have come from *kil(i)yos. He is incorrect; they can only come from *kēliyos.
Descendants
edit- Proto-Brythonic: *kilɨð
- Primitive Irish: ᚉᚓᚂᚔ (celi, genitive)
- Gaulish: cele (attested on Châteaubleau tile)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kēlyo- / *kilyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 199–200
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “ceil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- ^ Stokes, Whitley, Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1894) Urkeltischer Sprachschatz (Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen; Zweiter Theil) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 66
- ^ Schrijver, Peter (1998) “The Châteaubleau tile as a link between Latin and French and between Gaulish and Brittonic”, in Etudes Celtiques, volume 34, number 1, , →ISSN, pages 135–142
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “cele”, 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 112
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 241-243