Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/abankos
Appearance
Proto-Celtic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the oblique stem of the n-stem Proto-Indo-European *h₂ép-h₃ō ~ *h₂p-h₃nés (which yielded *abū (“river”) in Celtic; from the root *h₂ep- (“water”)), suffixed with *-kos.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]*abankos m
Inflection
[edit]Masculine o-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *abankos | *abankou | *abankoi |
vocative | *abanke | *abankou | *abankoi |
accusative | *abankom | *abankou | *abankons |
genitive | *abankī | *abankous | *abankom |
dative | *abankūi | *abankobom | *abankobos |
locative | *abankei | *? | *? |
instrumental | *abankū | *abankobim | *abankūis |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Brythonic: *aβank (“aquatic creature, beaver; dwarf”)
- Old Irish: abacc, abac (“dwarf”) (with unexplained devoicing of the velar)
References
[edit]- ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 312
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*abon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 23–24