Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gulbīnos

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

Some apparent extension of *gulb-, of unknown (possibly substrate) origin.^[1]

Noun

*gulbīnos m^[2]

beak

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gulbīnos	*gulbīnou	*gulbīnoi
vocative	*gulbīne	*gulbīnou	*gulbīnoi
accusative	*gulbīnom	*gulbīnou	*gulbīnoms
genitive	*gulbīnī	*gulbīnous	*gulbīnom
dative	*gulbīnūi	*gulbīnobom	*gulbīnobos
locative	*gulbīnei	*?	*?
instrumental	*gulbīnū	*gulbīnobim	*gulbīnūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *gülβin
- ⇒ Old Breton: golbinoc
  - Breton: (standard spelling) Gelveneg, (non-standard forms) Gilvenek, Guilvinek, Guilvinec, Gilvineg
    - → French: Guilvinec
- Old Cornish: geluin
  - Cornish: gelvin
- Old Welsh: gilbin
  - Middle Welsh: gylfin, gyluin
    - Welsh: gylfin
Old Irish: gulban

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gulbV-, *gulbīno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 168–169
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “gulbion”, 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 184

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gulbV-, *gulbīno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 168–169

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “gulbion”, 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 184

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