Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bodyos

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

Unknown. Cognate with Latin badius, perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *b⁽ʰ⁾od⁽ʰ⁾yos (“yellowish ~ brownish”) whose root is unknown elsewhere. More likely, the word is a regional West European wanderwort, perhaps a borrowing from Celtic into Italic, where the semantics narrowed to a color term for horses.

Adjective

*bodyos

1. yellow

Inflection

O/ā-stem
masculine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bodyos	*bodyou	*bodyoi
vocative	*bodye	*bodyou	*bodyoi
accusative	*bodyom	*bodyou	*bodyons
genitive	*bodyī	*bodyous	*bodyom
dative	*bodyūi	*bodyobom	*bodyobos
instrumental	*bodyū	*bodyobim	*bodyobis
feminine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bodyā	*bodyai	*bodyās
vocative	*bodyā	*bodyai	*bodyās
accusative	*bodyam	*bodyai	*bodyans
genitive	*bodyās	*bodyous	*bodyom
dative	*bodyai	*bodyābom	*bodyābos
instrumental	*?	*bodyābim	*bodyābis
neuter	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bodyom	*bodyou	*bodyā
vocative	*bodyom	*bodyou	*bodyā
accusative	*bodyom	*bodyou	*bodyā
genitive	*bodyī	*bodyous	*bodyom
dative	*bodyūi	*bodyobom	*bodyobos
instrumental	*bodyū	*bodyobim	*bodyobis

Declension of the comparative
masculine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bodyūs	*?	*bodyoses
vocative	*bodyūs	*?	*bodyoses
accusative	*bodyosam	*?	*bodyosans
genitive	*bodyisos	*?	*bodyisom
dative	*bodyisei	*?	*bodyisbos
instrumental	*bodyisī	*?	*bodyisbis
feminine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bodyūs	*?	*bodyoses
vocative	*bodyūs	*?	*bodyoses
accusative	*bodyosam	*?	*bodyosans
genitive	*bodyisos	*?	*bodyisom
dative	*bodyisei	*?	*bodyisbos
instrumental	*bodyisī	*?	*bodyisbis
neuter	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bodyis	*?	*?
vocative	*bodyis	*?	*?
accusative	*bodyis	*?	*?
genitive	*bodyisos	*?	*bodyisom
dative	*bodyisei	*?	*bodyisbos
instrumental	*bodyisī	*?	*bodyisbis

Descendants

• Old Irish: buide, boide
  • Irish: buí
  • Manx: buigh, bwee
  • Scottish Gaelic: buidhe
• Gaulish: *bodios, *badios
  • → Latin: Baius
  • ⇒ Gaulish: *Bodiocasses
    • → Latin: Baiocasses, Bodiocasses
      • French: Bayeux
• →? Latin: badius (earlier *bodius?) (see there for further descendants)