Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/snāmus
Appearance
Proto-Celtic
[edit]Alternative reconstructions
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *snā- + *-mus (verbal noun ending for verbs eventually becoming hiatus verbs in Old Irish).
Noun
[edit]*snāmus m
Inflection
[edit]The o-stem declension assigned by Matasović is erroneous; there is no evidence of such inflection in any early Celtic language.
Masculine/feminine u-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *snāmus | *snāmū | *snāmowes |
vocative | *snāmu | *snāmū | *snāmūs |
accusative | *snāmum | *snāmū | *snāmums |
genitive | *snāmous | *snāmous | *snāmowom |
dative | *snāmou | *snāmubom | *snāmubos |
locative | *? | *? | *? |
instrumental | *snāmū | *snāmubim | *snāmubis |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*snāmo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 348