Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nekʷe
Proto-Celtic
editEtymology
editParallel combinations of *ne and *-kʷe also appear in Latin neque[1] and Proto-Germanic *nehw.
Particle
edit*nekʷe
Conjunction
edit*nekʷe
Descendants
edit- Proto-Brythonic: *nag (with delabialization)
- Old Irish: nách (combined with copula), nach (used as a negative relative conjunction involving pronouns)
- Celtiberian: nekue (“not, nor”)
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 287