Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/srutu

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 *srew-.

Noun

*srutu n^[1]

stream, river
flow, current

Inflection

Neuter u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*srutu	*srutū	*srutwā
vocative	*srutu	*srutū	*srutwā
accusative	*srutu	*srutū	*srutwā
genitive	*srutous	*srutous	*srutowom
dative	*srutou	*srutubom	*srutubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*srutū	*srutubim	*srutubis

Reconstruction notes

The *srutom reconstructed by Matasović is erroneous; he wrongly labels Old Irish sruth as a neuter o-stem^[2] when it is actually a u-stem.

Descendants

Brythonic: *frud
- Old Breton: frut
  - Breton: froud
- Old Cornish: frot
  - Cornish: fros
- Middle Welsh: ffrwt
  - Welsh: ffrwd
Old Irish: sruth
- Irish: sruth
- Manx: stroo
- Scottish Gaelic: sruth

References

^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) “Air. sruth”, in Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 129
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sruto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 353

[1] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) “Air. sruth”, in Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 129

[2] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sruto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 353

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