Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/lustā

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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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Etymology

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The usual etymology derives this from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (to cut off) whence also Proto-Germanic *leusaną (to lose) and Old Norse ljósta (to strike),[1] but Matasović refuses to accept this derivation.[2]

Noun

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*lustā f

  1. (anatomy) tail

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *lustā *lustai *lustās
vocative *lustā *lustai *lustās
accusative *lustam *lustai *lustāms
genitive *lustās *lustous *lustom
dative *lustāi *lustābom *lustābos
locative *lustai *? *?
instrumental *? *lustābim *lustābis

Descendants

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  • Proto-Brythonic: *llost
  • Middle Irish: los
    • Scottish Gaelic: los (purpose)

References

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  1. ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 269
  2. ^ 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