Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/griyano-
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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]Uncertain, as relating this word to anything presents phonetic difficulties, and the reconstruction of the Celtic word itself is highly uncertain. The current entry title *griyano- is not an endorsement of that reconstruction and was selected arbitrarily.
- Attempting to derive from *gʰreh₁w- (whence also Proto-Celtic *grāwā), Matasović posits a *gʰreh₁w-yos as an intermediary;[1] but *-wy- normally does not assimilate to *-yy- in Celtic the way he suggests.
- Stifter seeks to relate this word to Middle Irish grinnell (“bed of body of water; gravel”), and thus reconstructs either *grisano- or *gresano- and invokes an ad hoc early syncope of the second vowel for grinnell to get the -nn-.[2]
This word's gender is ambiguous in both Goidelic and Brittonic, making recovering the original gender impossible.
Noun
[edit]*griyano- gender unattested[3]
Alternative reconstructions
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*grīyano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 168
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Stifter, David (2010) “THE INVISIBLE THIRD. THE BASQUE AND CELTIC WORDS FOR 'SWALLOW'”, in Ériu[1], volume 60, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 145–157
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “graean”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ Koch, John (2004) “grit”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda[2], University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 153