Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/skoltā

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”)^[1] + *-tā.^[2] The o-grade is irregular, but it could have been influenced by the derived verb *skoltīti.

Noun

*skoltā f

split
fissure, rift

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*skoltā	*skoltai	*skoltās
vocative	*skoltā	*skoltai	*skoltās
accusative	*skoltam	*skoltai	*skoltāms
genitive	*skoltās	*skoltous	*skoltom
dative	*skoltāi	*skoltābom	*skoltābos
locative	*skoltai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*skoltābim	*skoltābis

Derived terms

*skoltīti

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *hwollt (with *hw from the verb)
- Middle Breton: faout
  - Breton: faout
- Cornish: fals, (Revived form) fols
- Middle Welsh: hollt
  - Welsh: hollt
Irish: scoilt

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skoltā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 343
^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 358

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skoltā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 343

[2] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 358

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