Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷantyos

Proto-Celtic edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

*kʷantyos m^[1]

flat hill, valley

Declension edit

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 edit

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

References edit

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷantyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 174

[Matasovic-1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷantyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 174

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