Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/loutus

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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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Noun

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*loutus f[3]

  1. ash from a fire

Declension

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Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *loutus *loutū *loutowes
vocative *loutu *loutū *loutūs
accusative *loutum *loutū *loutums
genitive *loutous *loutous *loutowom
dative *loutou *loutubom *loutubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *loutū *loutubim *loutubis

Reconstruction notes

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All Celtic descendants can be unified under a reconstruction *loutwis, but such a mechanical reconstruction would have rather odd suffixation (an i-stem on top of a u-stem).

  • Matasović supposes separate later extensions, *loutwos for Brythonic and *loutwis for Goidelic. However, *loutwos is unnecessary to reconstruct if *loutwis is also reconstructed, as Proto-Celtic diphthongs and their Brythonic reflexes generally cannot be i-affected, and short i in final syllables can only i-affect *e anyhow.
  • De Bernardo Stempel prefers an a-stem *loutā that secondarily turned into an i-stem in Old Irish, but she has no idea of how to derive the Brythonic material.[4]

Descendants

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  • Proto-Brythonic: *llʉdw
  • Middle Irish: lúaith

References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “lou-, lou̯ǝ-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 692
  2. ^ Monier Williams (1872) “उल्का ulkā”, in A Sanskṛit–English Dictionary: [], Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 218, column 3.
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lowtus-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 246
  4. ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 115