Jump to content

Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bakkos

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Unknown. Historically linked[1] to Latin baculum (staff, rod), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *bak-. Matasović assumes a Wanderwort origin.

Noun

[edit]

*bakkos m[2]

  1. hook, (curved) stick

Declension

[edit]
Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *bakkos *bakkou *bakkoi
vocative *bakke *bakkou *bakkoi
accusative *bakkom *bakkou *bakkoms
genitive *bakkī *bakkous *bakkom
dative *bakkūi *bakkobom *bakkobos
locative *bakkei *? *?
instrumental *bakkū *bakkobim *bakkūis

Descendants

[edit]
  • Proto-Brythonic: *bax
  • Old Irish: bacc

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 93
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bakko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 52