Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/lukūts

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

Etymology

Unknown; most likely from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Noun

*lukūts f

1. mouse

Declension

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lukūts	*lukote	*lukotes
vocative	*lukūts	*lukote	*lukotes
accusative	*lukotam	*lukote	*lukotams
genitive	*lukotos	*lukotou	*lukotom
dative	*lukotei	*lukotobom	*lukotobos
locative	*lukoti	—	—
instrumental	*lukote?	*lukotobim	*lukotobis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *llug
  • Old Breton: loc
  • Middle Welsh: llyg
    • Welsh: llyg (“shrew”)
• Old Irish: luch
  • Irish: luch
  • Manx: lugh
  • Scottish Gaelic: luch
• Gaulish: *lucot-
  • ⇒ Gaulish: Lucotios, Λουκοτικνος
  • ⇒ Gaulish: *Lucotiācon
    • → Latin: Locoteiaco
      • French: Ligugé