Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kredro-
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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 related to *kreddīti (“to believe”),[1] but the derivational pathway is unclear.
Noun
[edit]*kredro- gender unattested
Reconstruction notes
[edit]The gender of this word is unattested in Old Irish, and Middle Irish secondarily changed this word to a feminine i-stem. Brittonic masculine forms narrow the original gender down to neuter or masculine.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kredro/i-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 222