Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sunus
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.
Noun
[edit]*sunus m[1]
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine/feminine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *sunus | *sunū | *sunowes |
| vocative | *sunu | *sunū | *sunūs |
| accusative | *sunum | *sunū | *sununs |
| genitive | *sunous | *sunous | *sunowom |
| dative | *sunou | *sunubom | *sunubos |
| locative | *? | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *sunū | *sunubim | *sunubis |
Reconstruction notes
[edit]- Delamarre denies the existence of this word in Celtic, and instead derives many Gaulish derivatives, assigned here by De Bernardo Stempel, from the word family of *sounos (“sleep”) instead.[2]
Descendants
[edit]- Gaulish: *sunus
- ⇒ Celtiberian: Ebursunos (literally “Yewson”) (compound with *eburos (“yew”))
- →⇒ Latin: Callīsunus (name of a Britannian man, borrowed from a very early Brittonic language, compound with *kallī (“woods”))
References
[edit]- ^ De Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (2013) “Celtic ‘son’, ‘daughter’, other descendants, and *sunus in Early Celtic”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 118, , →ISSN, pages 259-297
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2013) “Dea Sunuχsalis”, in Studia Celtica Fennica, volume 10, Finnish Society for Celtic Studies, →ISSN, pages 5–7