Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/yalom

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 Pre-Celtic *ih̥₁-l-eh₂-, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁-. Related to Russian я́ловый (jálovyj, “barren”), Latvian jēls (“raw, uncooked”), English idle.

Noun

*yalom n

1. clearing, glade

Declension

Neuter o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*iālom	*iālou	*iālā
vocative	*iālom	*iālou	*iālā
accusative	*iālom	*iālou	*iālā
genitive	*iālī	*iālous	*iālom
dative	*iālūi	*iālobom	*iālobos
locative	*iālei	*?	*?
instrumental	*iālū	*iālobim	*iālūis

Descendants

• Middle Welsh: ial
  • Welsh: iâl
• Pictish:
  • → English: Yell
• Gaulish: *ialum
  • → *Eburoialum, *Vernoialum, *Nantoialum (toponyms)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “iâl”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 432–3
  • Matasović, Ranko (2011). “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, s.v. “*yalo-”, Zagreb, p. 44
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “504–5”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 504–5