Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/onkos

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

If Matasović is right in relating this to *annketi (“to reach”), this would be from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ-,^[1] albeit with the vowel in the wrong spot (analogical to the verb?).

Noun

*onkos m

reaching

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*onkos	*onkou	*onkoi
vocative	*onke	*onkou	*onkoi
accusative	*onkom	*onkou	*onkons
genitive	*onkī	*onkous	*onkom
dative	*onkūi	*onkobom	*onkobos
locative	*onkei	*?	*?
instrumental	*onkū	*onkobim	*onkūis

Related terms

*onkīti (causative verb)
- Proto-Brythonic: *önkid
  - Middle Welsh: yngu (“to come near”)

Descendants

All descendants have been grammaticalized as prepositions.

Proto-Brythonic: *unk
- Middle Welsh: wng, wg, ug
Old Irish: oc, ac
- Middle Irish: oc
  - Irish: ag
  - Manx: ec
  - Scottish Gaelic: aig

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*onko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 299

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*onko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 299

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