Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/keiliyos
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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.[1] Possibly originally meaning "wayfarer," from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to settle”), similar to the sense development of Old Irish séitig (“wife”) from *sentus (“way, path”).[2] Stokes instead compares Latin cacula (“servant”).[3]
Noun
[edit]Inflection
[edit]| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *keiliyos | *keiliyou | *keiliyoi |
| vocative | *keiliye | *keiliyou | *keiliyoi |
| accusative | *keiliyom | *keiliyou | *keiliyoms |
| genitive | *keiliyī | *keiliyous | *keiliyom |
| dative | *keiliyūi | *keiliyobom | *keiliyobos |
| locative | *keiliyei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *keiliyū | *keiliyobim | *keiliyūis |
Reconstruction notes
[edit]- Matasović claims that the Brittonic forms must have come from *kil(i)yos. He is incorrect; they can only come from *keiliyos.
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Brythonic: *kilɨð
- Primitive Irish: ᚉᚓᚂᚔ (celi, genitive)
- Gaulish: cele (attested on Châteaubleau tile)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kēlyo- / *kilyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 199–200
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “ceil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- ^ Stokes, Whitley, Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1894) Urkeltischer Sprachschatz (Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen; Zweiter Theil) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 66
- ^ Schrijver, Peter (1998) “The Châteaubleau tile as a link between Latin and French and between Gaulish and Brittonic”, in Etudes Celtiques, volume 34, number 1, , →ISSN, pages 135–142
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “cele”, 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 112
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 241-243