Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/knawī
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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]Possibly connected to *knāyeti (“to bite, chew”),[1] but Zair finds this connection difficult unless *knawī was formed before the root adopted its "bite" meaning.[2]
Noun
[edit]*knawī f[1]
Declension
[edit]| Feminine ī/yā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *knawī | *knawī | *knawiyās |
| vocative | *knawī | *knawī | *knawiyās |
| accusative | *knawīm | *knawī | *knawīms |
| genitive | *knawyās | *knawyous | *knawyom |
| dative | *knawyai | *knawyābom | *knawyābos |
| locative | *? | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *? | *knawyābim | *knawyābis |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Brythonic:
- Goidelic:
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*knawī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 211
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 97
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnaí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language