Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/agrinyos

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 a form of Proto-Indo-European *h₂eg- (“berry”), similar in form to Proto-Germanic *akraną (“small fruit of a tree”). Cognate with Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), English acorn, Lithuanian uoga (“berry”), etc.

Noun

*agrinyos m

1. sloe, plum, berry

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*agrinyos	*agrinyou	*agrinyoi
vocative	*agrinye	*agrinyou	*agrinyūs
accusative	*agrinyom	*agrinyou	*agrinyoms
genitive	*agrinyī	*agrinyous	*agrinyom
dative	*agrinyūi	*agrinyobom	*agrinyobos
locative	*agrinyei	*?	*?
instrumental	*agrinyū	*agrinyobim	*agrinyūis

Descendants

• Primitive Irish:
  • Old Irish: áirne
    • Irish: airne (“sloe, gland”)
    • Manx: airn (“sloe, bullace”)
    • Scottish Gaelic: àirne (“sloe, blackthorn”)
• Brythonic: ("plum")
  • Welsh: eirin
  • Breton: irin
• Hispano-Iberian:
  • →? Catalan: aranyó (“sloe”)
  • →? Spanish: arañón (“sloe”)
  • →? Occitan: agreno, aranhon, aragnou, agragnou (“sloe”)
  • →? Proto-Basque: *araN
    • Basque: aran

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áirne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language