Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bodyā

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

Pokorny's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake”) is questioned by Matasović and Schrijver for semantic reasons. Schrijver instead brings up the alternative *bʰed- (“to make better”) as the root.

Noun

*bodyā f

1. satisfaction
2. pleasure

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bodyā	*bodyai	*bodyās
vocative	*bodyā	*bodyai	*bodyās
accusative	*bodyam	*bodyai	*bodyāns
genitive	*bodyās	*bodyous	*bodyom
dative	*bodyāi	*bodyābom	*bodyābos
locative	*bodyai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*bodyābim	*bodyābis

Reconstruction notes

The formations of the descendant forms are unclear.

• Schrijver prefers to unite the Brittonic and Goidelic forms under one form *bodyā. *-yā regularly disappears without a trace in Brittonic while yielding -e in Goidelic. The masculine gender of the Brittonic words would have to be secondary in this case.
• Matasović would rather reconstruct a base *bodos for the Brittonic masculine words, and derives buide from an *-iyā of this base.

Schrijver's reconstruction is adopted here out of simplicity.

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *boð m
  • Cornish: both
  • Middle Welsh: bodd, bot, bod
    • Welsh: bodd
  • ⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *boðlọn (“content, satisfied”)
    • Old Breton: bodlon
    • ⇒ Old Welsh: anbodlaun
    • Middle Welsh: boðlawn, botlawn
      • Welsh: bodlon
• Old Irish: buide (“gratitude”)
  • Irish: buí (“thanks”)
  • Scottish Gaelic: buidhe (“thanks”)
  • ⇒ Manx: booise