Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/datlā

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

Of disputed origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh̥₁-tl-eh₂, from *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”) +‎ *-tlo- (instrument noun suffix) (synchronically, *-tlā).

Noun

*datlā f

1. meeting, assembly

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*datlā	*datlai	*datlās
vocative	*datlā	*datlai	*datlās
accusative	*datlam	*datlai	*datlāms
genitive	*datlās	*datlous	*datlom
dative	*datlāi	*datlābom	*datlābos
locative	*datlai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*datlābim	*datlābis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *dadl
  • Old Breton: dadl
    • Breton: dael
  • Middle Welsh: dadl
    • Welsh: dadl
• Old Irish: dál
  • Irish: dáil
  • Scottish Gaelic: dàil

Further reading

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “datlā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 92