Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bussus

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

Uncertain, possibly a sound-symbolic word.^[1]

Noun

*bussus m

lip

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bussus	*bussū	*bussowes
vocative	*bussu	*bussū	*bussūs
accusative	*bussum	*bussū	*bussums
genitive	*bussous	*bussous	*bussowom
dative	*bussou	*bussubom	*bussubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*bussū	*bussubim	*bussubis

Descendants

⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *gweβus
- Middle Breton: gweus, geux, gueux
  - Breton: gweuz
- Old Cornish: gueus
- Middle Welsh: gweus
  - Welsh: gwefus
Middle Irish: bus (poetic)
Gaulish: *bussus
- ⇒ Gaulish: bussumāros (epithet of Jupiter)

References

^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “bussu-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 95

[1] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “bussu-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 95

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