Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/knissos
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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]Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *kneyd- (“to scratch”) + *-tós. The same root also yielded Old Norse hníta (“to strike”) and Ancient Greek κνίζω (knízō, “to scratch”).[1] The semantic evolution may have gone from "scratched (thing)" > "skin".[2]
Noun
[edit]*knissos m
- skin
- Synonyms: *krokkenom, *kennos
- flesh
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *knissos | *knissou | *knissoi |
| vocative | *knisse | *knissou | *knissoi |
| accusative | *knissom | *knissou | *knissoms |
| genitive | *knissī | *knissous | *knissom |
| dative | *knissūi | *knissobom | *knissobos |
| locative | *knissei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *knissū | *knissobim | *knissūis |
Reconstruction notes
[edit]The vowel of Middle Welsh cnes is irregular; one would expect **cnys. It must have been influenced by or borrowed from a cognate where the -e- would be regular.
Related terms
[edit]- *knidā (“wound”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović[1], Zagreb, page 22
- ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 263-264