Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/skʷetlom
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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]A simple derivation from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”)[1][2][3] seems obvious, but the labiovelar seems to have lost its labialization in Brittonic; otherwise a p would have appeared. There are many ways to account for the delabialization:
- Schrijver presumes delabialization in this word happened at the Proto-Celtic level, yielding *sketlom.[3]
- Matasović thinks a metathesis occurred; his own scenario of *skʷ > *xs-[4] is implausible, since he cannot find a source for the following /w/. One can salvage his metathesis idea by instead positing *sékʷtlom > *sextlom > *sketlom, which would account for the odd position of the *e and apparent zero-grade root for a *-tlom noun.
Noun
[edit]*skʷetlom n
Inflection
[edit]| Neuter o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *skʷetlom | *skʷetlou | *skʷetlā |
| vocative | *skʷetlom | *skʷetlou | *skʷetlā |
| accusative | *skʷetlom | *skʷetlou | *skʷetlā |
| genitive | *skʷetlī | *skʷetlous | *skʷetlom |
| dative | *skʷetlūi | *skʷetlobom | *skʷetlobos |
| locative | *skʷetlei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *skʷetlū | *skʷetlobim | *skʷetlūis |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 63
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 338–339
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 375
- ^ 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