Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷantyos
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Proto-Celtic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Presumably related to Latin cumulus (“hill, heap”), Old English hwamm (“corner, angle”), Old Norse hvammr (“vale”), but Matasovic finds the origin of these words "very problematic."
Noun[edit]
*kʷantyos m[1]
Declension[edit]
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *kʷantyos | *kʷantyou | *kʷantyoi |
| vocative | *kʷantye | *kʷantyou | *kʷantyūs |
| accusative | *kʷantyom | *kʷantyou | *kʷantyoms |
| genitive | *kʷantyī | *kʷantyous | *kʷantyom |
| dative | *kʷantyūi | *kʷantyobom | *kʷantyobos |
| locative | *kʷantyei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *kʷantyū | *kʷantyobim | *kʷantyūis |
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Irish: céite
References[edit]
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷantyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 174