Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/koxsā

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

From Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-. Cognate with Latin coxa (“hip”), Old High German hahsa (“back of the knee”), and Sanskrit कक्ष (kákṣa, “armpit”).

Noun

*koxsā f

1. leg, foot

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*koxsā	*koxsai	*koxsās
vocative	*koxsā	*koxsai	*koxsās
accusative	*koxsam	*koxsai	*koxsāms
genitive	*koxsās	*koxsous	*koxsom
dative	*koxsāi	*koxsābom	*koxsābos
locative	*koxsai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*koxsābim	*koxsābis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *koɨs
  • Middle Welsh: coes
    • Welsh: coes
• Old Irish: cos
  • Irish: cos
  • Manx: cass
  • Scottish Gaelic: cas

Further reading

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*koxsā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 220