Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷantyos

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Presumably related to Latin cumulus (“hill, heap”), Old English hwamm (“corner, angle”), Old Norse hvammr (“vale”), but Matasovic finds the origin of these words "very problematic."

Noun

*kʷantyos m

1. flat hill, valley

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kʷantyos	*kʷantyou	*kʷantyoi
vocative	*kʷantye	*kʷantyou	*kʷantyūs
accusative	*kʷantyom	*kʷantyou	*kʷantyoms
genitive	*kʷantyī	*kʷantyous	*kʷantyom
dative	*kʷantyūi	*kʷantyobom	*kʷantyobos
locative	*kʷantyei	*?	*?
instrumental	*kʷantyū	*kʷantyobim	*kʷantyūis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic:
  • Old Breton: pantet
    • Middle Breton: pant
  • Cornish: pans
  • Middle Welsh: pant
  • Pictish: ᚘᚐᚅᚈ (“hollow”)
• Middle Irish: céite