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”).^[1]

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

A fighter.
(mythology) A raven, a crow related to war.
(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

^ Koch, John (2019), Common Ground and Progress on the Celtic of the South-Western Inscriptions, Aberystwyth: Wales University, p. 43

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

[1] Koch, John (2019), Common Ground and Progress on the Celtic of the South-Western Inscriptions, Aberystwyth: Wales University, p. 43

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