Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mokkus
Proto-Celtic
editEtymology
editBorrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language. MacBain prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slippery, slimy”), connecting Latin mucus, Ancient Greek μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nose, nostril”).[1]
Noun
edit*mokkus m or f[2]
Inflection
editMasculine/feminine u-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *mokkus | *mokkū | *mokkowes |
vocative | *mokku | *mokkū | *mokkūs |
accusative | *mokkum | *mokkū | *mokkums |
genitive | *mokkous | *mokkous | *mokkowom |
dative | *mokkou | *mokkubom | *mokkubos |
locative | *? | *? | *? |
instrumental | *mokkū | *mokkubim | *mokkubis |
Usage notes
editThe Brythonic descendants are masculine and the Goidelic descendants feminine. It is probable that the word originally belonged to either gender, depending on the sex of the specific animal referred to.
Descendants
edit- >? Proto-West Germanic: *mukk-
References
edit- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “muc”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 274-275