Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/budīnā

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

Perhaps from the same source as *boudi (“victory, booty”).

Noun

*budīnā f

1. host, troop

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*budinā	*budinai	*budinās
vocative	*budinā	*budinai	*budinās
accusative	*budinam	*budinai	*budināms
genitive	*budinās	*budinous	*budinom
dative	*budināi	*budinābom	*budinābos
locative	*budinai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*budinābim	*budinābis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *büðin
  • Old Breton: bodin
  • Middle Welsh: byddin
    • Welsh: byddin
• Old Irish: buiden
  • Irish: buíon
• Gaulish: budīnā
  • → Late Latin: bodina (“frontier”), Budenicus (theonym)