Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wextom

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 *weǵʰ- (“to bring, to transport”).^[1]

Noun

*wextom n^[2]

time, course, turn
work

Declension

Neuter o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*wextom	*wextou	*wextā
vocative	*wextom	*wextou	*wextā
accusative	*wextom	*wextou	*wextā
genitive	*wextī	*wextous	*wextom
dative	*wextūi	*wextobom	*wextobos
locative	*wextei	*?	*?
instrumental	*wextū	*wextobim	*wextūis

Reconstruction notes

This word became confused with the similarly-shaped (but unrelated) *wixtā in Insular Celtic.

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *gweiθ
- Old Breton: gueid
  - Middle Breton: guez
    - Breton: gwezh
- Old Cornish: gueid
  - Middle Cornish: gweth, gwyth
    - Cornish: gweyth
- Middle Welsh: gweith
  - Welsh: gwaith
Old Irish: fecht (“time”), fect
- Irish: feacht
- Scottish Gaelic: feachd

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wextā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419/420
^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 251-252

[EDPC-1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wextā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419/420

[2] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 251-252

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