Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/tondā

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 *tend- (“to cut off”), similar to Latin tondeo.

Noun

*tondā f

1. surface, skin

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tondā	*tondai	*tondās
vocative	*tondā	*tondai	*tondās
accusative	*tondam	*tondai	*tondāms
genitive	*tondās	*tondous	*tondom
dative	*tondāi	*tondābom	*tondābos
locative	*tondai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*tondābim	*tondābis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic:
  • Old Breton: tonnenn
    • Middle Breton: tonenn
      • Breton: tonnenn
  • Middle Welsh: tonn, tonnen
• Old Irish: tonn, tond
  • Middle Irish: tonn
    • Irish: tonn
    • Manx: tonn
    • Scottish Gaelic: tonn
• Gaulish: *tondā
  • → Latin: tunna, tonna
    • Catalan: tona, tonya
    • Old French: tonne
      • French: tonne
        • → English: tonne
    • Old French: tonel
      • Galician: tonel, tonelada
      • Portuguese: tonel, tonelada
      • Spanish: tonel, tonelada
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *tunnā, *tonnā, *tunnu (see there for further descendants)
• >? Gallaecian:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: tona
    • Galician: tona
    • Portuguese: tona