Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nowe
Appearance
Proto-Celtic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *ne-we, from *ne (“not”) + *-wē (“or”), literally “or not”.[1][2] Compare Latin nēve, which was formed identically.
Conjunction
[edit]*nowe
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 885, page 551; reprinted 2017
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 404