Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mori

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 *móri.^[1]

Noun

*mori n

sea

Declension

Neuter i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mori	*morī	*moryā
vocative	*mori	*morī	*moryā
accusative	*mori	*morī	*moryā
genitive	*morois	*morois	*moryom
dative	*morei	*moribom	*moribos
locative	*morei	*?	*?
instrumental	*morī	*moribim	*moribis

Reconstruction notes

Matasović wrongly believes that *mori was transformed into an o-stem in Brittonic due to its lack of i-affection. In fact, it is regular for short *i to not trigger final i-affection of any vowel other than *e, making Matasović's hypothesis completely unnecessary.

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *mor
- Old Breton: mor
  - Middle Breton: mor
    - Breton: mor
- Old Cornish: mor
  - Middle Cornish: mor
    - Cornish: mor
- Middle Welsh: mor
  - Welsh: môr
Old Irish: muir
- Irish: muir
- Manx: mooir
- Scottish Gaelic: muir
⇒ Gaulish: Aremorica (the name for Brittany)
→⇒ Vulgar Latin: *morūca

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mori-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 277

[EDPC-1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mori-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 277

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