Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/adaxstrom

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

From *ad-ageti (“to drive”) +‎ *-strom (instrumental suffix).^[1]

Noun

*adaxstrom n

halter, bridle

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*adaxstrom	*adaxstrou	*adaxstrā
vocative	*adaxstrom	*adaxstrou	*adaxstrā
accusative	*adaxstrom	*adaxstrou	*adaxstrā
genitive	*adaxstrī	*adaxstrous	*adaxstrom
dative	*adaxstrūi	*adaxstrobom	*adaxstrobos
locative	*adaxstrei	*?	*?
instrumental	*adaxstrū	*adaxstrobim	*adaxstrūis

Descendants

⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *ėdėstr (“horse, foal; i.e. something ridden with a halter”)
- Middle Welsh: eddystr, eddestr, etystir
  - Welsh: eddystr, eddestr
Old Irish: adastor
- Middle Irish: adastar
  - Irish: adhastar
  - Manx: eiystyr
  - Scottish Gaelic: adhastar

References

^ Schrijver, Peter (2022) “The Development of Proto-Celtic *st in British Celtic”, in Simon Rodway, Jenny Rowland, and Erich Poppe, editors, Celts, Gaels, and Britons: Studies in Language and Literature from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Honour of Patrick Sims-Williams (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN

[1] Schrijver, Peter (2022) “The Development of Proto-Celtic *st in British Celtic”, in Simon Rodway, Jenny Rowland, and Erich Poppe, editors, Celts, Gaels, and Britons: Studies in Language and Literature from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Honour of Patrick Sims-Williams (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN

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