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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gʷoniyos

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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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Extension of *gʷonos (killer) by *-iyos (agent noun suffix).[1]

Noun

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*gʷoniyos m

  1. killer

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *gʷoniyos *gʷoniyou *gʷoniyoi
vocative *gʷoniye *gʷoniyou *gʷoniyoi
accusative *gʷoniyom *gʷoniyou *gʷoniyoms
genitive *gʷoniyī *gʷoniyous *gʷoniyom
dative *gʷoniyūi *gʷoniyobom *gʷoniyobos
locative *gʷoniyei *? *?
instrumental *gʷoniyū *gʷoniyobim *gʷoniyūis

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Uhlich, Jurgen (2002) “Verbal governing compounds (synthetics) in Early Irish and other Celtic languages”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 100, number 3, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, page 417