Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸreimos

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

A derivative of Proto-Indo-European *préy (“before, at”).^[1]^[2]

Noun

*ɸreimos m

chief

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ɸreimos	*ɸreimou	*ɸreimoi
vocative	*ɸreime	*ɸreimou	*ɸreimoi
accusative	*ɸreimom	*ɸreimou	*ɸreimoms
genitive	*ɸreimī	*ɸreimous	*ɸreimom
dative	*ɸreimūi	*ɸreimobom	*ɸreimobos
locative	*ɸreimei	*?	*?
instrumental	*ɸreimū	*ɸreimobim	*ɸreimūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *rruɨβ̃
- Middle Breton: roe
  - Breton: roue
- Old Cornish: ruif, ruy
- Middle Welsh: rhwyf, ruif
  - Welsh: rhwyf
Gaulish: *rēmos
- → Latin: Rēmī (name of a Gaulish tribe)
  - French: Reims

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “remos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 257

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “remos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 257

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