Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/to-
Proto-Celtic
editAlternative reconstructions
edit- *tu-
Etymology
editUnknown. Dunkel gives two suggestions, either Proto-Indo-European *tó (“to, towards”), but there are no clear cognates,[1] or PIE *tó (“then”), compare Hittite 𒋫 (ta-, “then”, connective particle).[2] Matasović's derivation from PIE *tó- (pronoun)[3] is plausible neither semantically nor morphologically, because the stem *tó- was otherwise completely replaced by *só- in Celtic.[4]
Prefix
edit*to-
Descendants
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 2. Reihe: Wörterbücher) (in German), volume 1: Einleitung, Terminologie, Lautgesetze, Adverbialendungen, Nominalsuffixe, Anhänge und Indices, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 772
- ^ ibid., page 775
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*to-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 381
- ^ Peter Schrijver (1997) Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles (Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics; II), Maynooth: The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, page 14