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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wātis

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (excited, inspired).[1] Cognate with Latin vātēs.

Noun

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*wātis m[1]

  1. soothsayer, prophet

Declension

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Masculine/feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wātis *wātī *wātīs
vocative *wāti *wātī *wātīs
accusative *wātim *wātī *wātims
genitive *wāteis *wātyow *wātyom
dative *wātei *wātibom *wātibos
locative *wātei *? *?
instrumental *wātī *wātibim *wātibis

Descendants

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  • Proto-Brythonic: *gwọd
  • Gaulish: uatis (attested as οὐάτεις by Strabo)
  • Goidelic:[2]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wāti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 404
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language