Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sounos

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *supnós.

Noun

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*sounos m[1]

  1. sleep

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *sounos *sounou *sounoi
vocative *soune *sounou *sounoi
accusative *sounom *sounou *sounoms
genitive *sounī *sounous *sounom
dative *sounūi *sounobom *sounobos
locative *sounei *? *?
instrumental *sounū *sounobim *sounūis

Descendants

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  • Proto-Brythonic: *hʉn
    • Middle Breton: hun
    • Old Cornish: hun
      • Middle Cornish: hun
    • Middle Welsh: hun
  • Old Irish: súan
  • Gaulish: *sounos[2]

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sowno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 351
  2. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “sounos”, in 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 279