Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ninatis

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)^[1]^[2]

Noun

*ninatis f

nettle

Inflection

Masculine/feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ninatis	*ninatī	*ninatīs
vocative	*ninati	*ninatī	*ninatīs
accusative	*ninatim	*ninatī	*ninatims
genitive	*ninateis	*ninatyow	*ninatyom
dative	*ninatei	*ninatibom	*ninatibos
locative	*ninatei	*?	*?
instrumental	*ninatī	*ninatibim	*ninatibis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *nɨnad
- Middle Breton: linhadenn sg
  - Breton: linad pl, linadenn sg
- Old Cornish: linhaden
- Middle Welsh: dynat, danat
  - Welsh: danadl
Old Irish: nenaid
- Middle Irish: nenaid
  - ⇒ Irish: neantóg
  - ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: neanntag, eanntag, feanntag, deanntag
  - ⇒ Manx: undaag, undaagagh

References

^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 197
^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 218-219

[1] Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 197

[2] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 218-219

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