Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/yuwantūts

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

An identical *-tūts formation can be found in Latin iuventūs (“youth”). Both are derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō (“young”); another derivative from the same base is found in Celtic *yuwankos (“young”).

Noun

*yuwantūts m

1. youth

Inflection

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*yuwantūts	*yuwantūte	*yuwantūtes
vocative	*yuwantūts	*yuwantūte	*yuwantūtes
accusative	*yuwantūtam	*yuwantūte	*yuwantūtams
genitive	*yuwantūtos	*yuwantūtou	*yuwantūtom
dative	*yuwantūtei	*yuwantūtobom	*yuwantūtobos
locative	*yuwantūti	—	—
instrumental	*yuwantūte?	*yuwantūtobim	*yuwantūtobis

Descendants

• >? Proto-Brythonic: *jüwėnt (if the nom. sg. survived), *jüwėnktid (oblique stem, with *-k- inserted from the related adjective?)
  • Middle Welsh: ieuenctid (and many variant spellings)
    • Welsh: ieuenctid
  • Welsh: iewaint, ewaint (if not simply, as the GPC indicates, a secondary formation with -aint)
• Old Irish: oítiu
• Gaulish: *iuantus, *iouantus (reinterpreted as a u-stem)
  • → Latin: Iuantus, Iouantus
  • ⇒ Gaulish: *Iouantucaros
    • → Latin: Iouantucarus