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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bunnos

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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

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Etymology

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Unknown; possibly borrowed from a lost substrate language.[1]

Noun

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*bunnos m

  1. bittern

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *bunnos *bunnou *bunnoi
vocative *bunne *bunnou *bunnoi
accusative *bunnom *bunnou *bunnoms
genitive *bunnī *bunnous *bunnom
dative *bunnūi *bunnobom *bunnobos
locative *bunnei *? *?
instrumental *bunnū *bunnobim *bunnūis

Descendants

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  • Proto-Brythonic: *bunn
  • Old Irish: bonnán

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bunno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 84