Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/glanis
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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]Nominalization of *glanos (“clear”).[1]
Noun
[edit]*glanis f[2]
- clearness
- something clear or transparent
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine/feminine i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *glanis | *glanī | *glanīs |
| vocative | *glani | *glanī | *glanīs |
| accusative | *glanim | *glanī | *glanins |
| genitive | *glaneis | *glanyow | *glanyom |
| dative | *glanei | *glanibom | *glanibos |
| locative | *glanei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *glanī | *glanibim | *glanibis |
Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *glėn (< thematicized *glanyos)
- Old Irish: glain (“crystal, glass”)
- Middle Irish: glain
- Gaulish: *glanis
- → Latin: Glanis
- Celtiberian: *glanis
- → Ancient Greek: Γλάνις (Glánis, name of a river in Spain)
References
[edit]- ^ Weiss, Michael (2012) “Interesting i-stems in Irish”, in Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau and Michael Weiss, editors, Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, page 347
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “glano-”, 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 180