Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sūdyā
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Proto-Celtic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Oft-considered cognates include Lithuanian súodžiai, Proto-Slavic *saďa, and most controversially Proto-Germanic *sōtą, all meaning "soot". For these three, Matasović reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *seh₃wd- as their common root, independent of *sed- (“to sit”) from which the Germanic word was traditionally derived.[1] The Celtic would require a metathesis of *-h₃w- to *-uh₃- in this root.
The Germanic word in particular requires what Kroonen calls "Mahlow's law", where long vowels in open syllables caused a following -w- to be lost in Germanic, for Matasović's etymology to work. Kroonen does not deal with Proto-Germanic *sōtą in his dictionary.
Noun
[edit]*sūdyā f
Inflection
[edit]Feminine ā-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *sūdyā | *sūdyai | *sūdyās |
vocative | *sūdyā | *sūdyai | *sūdyās |
accusative | *sūdyam | *sūdyai | *sūdyāms |
genitive | *sūdyās | *sūdyous | *sūdyom |
dative | *sūdyāi | *sūdyābom | *sūdyābos |
locative | *sūdyai | *? | *? |
instrumental | *? | *sūdyābim | *sūdyābis |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 358-359
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 125