Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸūts
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”).[1]
Noun
[edit]*ɸūts m
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine/feminine consonant stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *ɸūts | *ɸāde | *ɸādes |
| vocative | *ɸūts | *ɸāde | *ɸādes |
| accusative | *ɸādam | *ɸāde | *ɸādans |
| genitive | *ɸādos | *ɸādou | *ɸādom |
| dative | *ɸādei | *ɸādobom | *ɸādobos |
| locative | *ɸādi | — | — |
| instrumental | *ɸāde? | *ɸādobim | *ɸādobis |
Reconstruction notes
[edit]- The term is solely unambiguously attested in Galatian. Its /aː/ (which cannot come from Proto-Indo-European *pódes) indicates that the long vowel of the nominative singular was generalized across the entire paradigm.
- Matasović's nominative singular *ɸād-s does not work, since as *dū (“to”) and *kū (“dog”) attest to, pre-Celtic *ō became *ū in monosyllables, not *ā. The leveling of the *ā across the paradigm attested in Galatian must have thus occurred before *ō split up.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Galatian: αδες pl (ades)
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fod-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 136