Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gāwā
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. See Matasović (2009)[1] and Zair (2011)[2] for various ideas.
Noun
[edit]*gāwā f
Inflection
[edit]| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *gāwā | *gāwai | *gāwās |
| vocative | *gāwā | *gāwai | *gāwās |
| accusative | *gāwam | *gāwai | *gāwāms |
| genitive | *gāwās | *gāwous | *gāwom |
| dative | *gāwāi | *gāwābom | *gāwābos |
| locative | *gāwai | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *? | *gāwābim | *gāwābis |
Reconstruction notes
[edit]- The Brittonic forms cannot result from *gāwā proper, but instead can only come from *guwo-, *gawo- or *gowo-.
- Matasović thinks this is a sign of an original root noun *gāus, oblique *guw-.
- Zair instead interprets the Brittonic data as implying that *gāw- never existed in the first place, finding the Old Irish spelling áu to be meaningless.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gāwā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 154
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2011) “British *-āu̯- and *-āg-, and the Celtic words for 'sun'”, in Die Sprache, volume 49, number 2, pages 194–216