Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/uɸoskātu

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 *uɸo- (“under-”) +‎ *skātu (“shade, shadow”).

Noun

*uɸoskātu n^[1]^[2]

shade, shadow
shelter

Inflection

Neuter u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*uɸoskātu	*uɸoskātū	*uɸoskātwā
vocative	*uɸoskātu	*uɸoskātū	*uɸoskātwā
accusative	*uɸoskātu	*uɸoskātū	*uɸoskātwā
genitive	*uɸoskātous	*uɸoskātous	*uɸoskātowom
dative	*uɸoskātou	*uɸoskātubom	*uɸoskātubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*uɸoskātū	*uɸoskātubim	*uɸoskātubis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *gwoskọd
- Old Breton: guascotou pl
  - Middle Breton: goasquet
    - Breton: gwasked
- Cornish: goskes
- Middle Welsh: gwasgawd
  - Welsh: gwasgod
Old Irish: foscad
- Irish: foscadh, fascadh (Galway, Ulster)

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*ufo-skāto/u-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 399
^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 126

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*ufo-skāto/u-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 399

[2] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 126

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