Reconstruction:Gaulish/bodwos

This Gaulish 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.

Gaulish

Etymology

Confirmed indirectly by immediately derived personal names Boduos in Gaulish and Boduus in Latin and derived itself from Proto-Celtic *bodwos (“fighting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to stab, pierce”).

The ascertainment and development of its semantics is partly difficult but the relation to the Irish raven battle goddess Badb, with Old Irish badb being an evident and sufficiently early cognate, can not be discarded anyways.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈbod.wos]

Noun

*bodwos m

1. A fighter.
2. (mythology) A raven, a crow related to war.
3. (uncommon, by extension) A raven, a crow.

Declension

    declension of Gaulish/bodwos (Transalpine)

Case Singular Plural Nominative *boduos *boduoi Vocative *bodue *boduoi Accusative *boduon *boduōs1, *boduūs2 Genitive *bodui *boduon Dative *boduū *boduobo Instrumental *boduū *boduuis1, *boduūs2 Locative *boduei1, *boduē2 *boduois 1 early forms, 2 late forms

References

• "bodua" in Delamarre, Xavier (2003), Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise - Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, Paris: Errance