Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mlixtus
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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]From *mligeti (“to milk”) + *-tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
[edit]*mlixtus m
- milking, milk yield
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine/feminine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *mlixtus | *mlixtū | *mlixtowes |
| vocative | *mlixtu | *mlixtū | *mlixtūs |
| accusative | *mlixtum | *mlixtū | *mlixtums |
| genitive | *mlixtous | *mlixtous | *mlixtowom |
| dative | *mlixtou | *mlixtubom | *mlixtubos |
| locative | *? | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *mlixtū | *mlixtubim | *mlixtubis |
Reconstruction notes
[edit]- Matasović's reconstruction of *mlixtos as being the root of all noun and adjective senses of Middle Irish blicht and Middle Welsh blith[1] is erroneous, since the past participle should yield Old Irish mlecht, Middle Irish blecht instead of the mlicht and blicht actually encountered.
- Due to the lack of vowel lowering in Goidelic, two separate words, an adjective *mlixtis and a noun *mlixtus, must be recontructed.[2]
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mlixto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
- ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 210