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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/abankos

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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

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Etymology

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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

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*abankos m

  1. aquatic creature
  2. dwarf

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
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
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Descendants

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  • Proto-Brythonic: *aβank (aquatic creature, beaver; dwarf)
  • Old Irish: abacc, abac (dwarf) (with unexplained devoicing of the velar)

References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*abon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 23–24