Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/agnā

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 verbal noun to *ageti (“to drive”). The *-nā suffix was quite rare in Celtic, only otherwise found in Old Irish úan (“loan”).^[1]

Noun

*agnā f^[2]^[3]

driving

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*agnā	*agnai	*agnās
vocative	*agnā	*agnai	*agnās
accusative	*agnam	*agnai	*agnāns
genitive	*agnās	*agnous	*agnom
dative	*agnāi	*agnābom	*agnābos
locative	*agnai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*agnābim	*agnābis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *aɨn
- Old Breton: aen
Old Irish: áin

References

^ Stüber, Karin (2015) Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 116
^ Hamp, Eric (1976) “Notes on Old Breton”, in Études Celtiques, volume 15, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 191–193
^ Fleuriot, Léon, Evans, Claude (1985) “aen”, in A Dictionary of Old Breton – Dictionnaire du vieux breton: Historical and Comparative (in French), Toronto: Prepcorp, pages 55-56

[1] Stüber, Karin (2015) Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 116

[2] Hamp, Eric (1976) “Notes on Old Breton”, in Études Celtiques, volume 15, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 191–193

[3] Fleuriot, Léon, Evans, Claude (1985) “aen”, in A Dictionary of Old Breton – Dictionnaire du vieux breton: Historical and Comparative (in French), Toronto: Prepcorp, pages 55-56

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