Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/souxtus

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

Lambert has related this word to English soak, German saugen (“to suck”), Old English sūcan (“to suck”) (whence English suck), and Latin sūgō (“to suck”).

Noun

*souxtus m

1. pot

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*souxtus	*souxtū	*souxtowes
vocative	*souxtu	*souxtū	*souxtūs
accusative	*souxtum	*souxtū	*souxtuns
genitive	*souxtous	*souxtous	*souxtowom
dative	*souxtou	*souxtubom	*souxtubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*souxtū	*souxtubim	*souxtubis

Reconstruction notes

Lambert specifies separate formations *souxtos for the Gaulish and *souxtus for the Irish, but this separation is unnecessary since a u-stem should also give Gaulish souxtu(s) for the accusative plural.

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *sʉɨθ
  • ⇒ Old Breton: seitog (“of a potter”)
  • Old Cornish: seit
    • Cornish: (obsolete) zeâth
• Old Irish: súacht
  • Middle Irish: súacht
    • ⇒ Irish: (from a diminutive) suacán
    • ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: (from a diminutive) suacan, suachgan, suachdan
• Gaulish: souxtu, suxtu (acc. pl.)

Further reading

• Breatnach, Liam (2007) “VARIA”, in Ériu‎^[2], volume 57, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 155–163
• Jørgensen, Anders Richardt (2008) “VARIA III. An additional cognate of Gaulish souxtu and Irish suacht: Old Cornish seit”, in Ériu‎^[3], volume 58, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 183–185