Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/rīgisamos
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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]Following the interpretation by Delamarre as "very royal",[1] this would effectively be *rīxs (“king”) (or some adjective derivative thereof) suffixed with *-isamos (superlative suffix).
Adjective
[edit]*rīgisamos
Inflection
[edit]| O/ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *rīgisamos | *rīgisamou | *rīgisamoi |
| vocative | *rīgisame | *rīgisamou | *rīgisamoi |
| accusative | *rīgisamom | *rīgisamou | *rīgisamons |
| genitive | *rīgisamī | *rīgisamous | *rīgisamom |
| dative | *rīgisamūi | *rīgisamobom | *rīgisamobos |
| instrumental | *rīgisamū | *rīgisamobim | *rīgisamobis |
| feminine | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *rīgisamā | *rīgisamai | *rīgisamās |
| vocative | *rīgisamā | *rīgisamai | *rīgisamās |
| accusative | *rīgisamam | *rīgisamai | *rīgisamans |
| genitive | *rīgisamās | *rīgisamous | *rīgisamom |
| dative | *rīgisamai | *rīgisamābom | *rīgisamābos |
| instrumental | *? | *rīgisamābim | *rīgisamābis |
| neuter | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *rīgisamom | *rīgisamou | *rīgisamā |
| vocative | *rīgisamom | *rīgisamou | *rīgisamā |
| accusative | *rīgisamom | *rīgisamou | *rīgisamā |
| genitive | *rīgisamī | *rīgisamous | *rīgisamom |
| dative | *rīgisamūi | *rīgisamobom | *rīgisamobos |
| instrumental | *rīgisamū | *rīgisamobim | *rīgisamobis |
Descendants
[edit]- Gaulish: *rīgisamos
- → Latin: Rīgisamus (epithet of Mars)
- Celtiberian:
References
[edit]- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 261
- ^ Prósper, Blanca María (2018) “The Indo-European Personal Names of Pannonia, Noricum and Northern Italy: Comparative and Superlative Forms in Celtic, Venetic, and South-Picene”, in Voprosy onomastiki, volume 15, number 2, , pages 108–138