Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/trīkontes

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 *tri-, and the element "kont" (see *kʷenkʷekont) of unknown origin.

Numeral

*trīkontes

Proto-Celtic cardinal numbers

<  20	30	40  >
Cardinal : *trīkontes

1. thirty

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *trigont
  • Old Breton: tricont, trigont
    • Middle Breton: tregont
      • Breton: tregont
• Old Irish: trícho
  • Middle Irish: trícha
    • Irish: tríocha
• Gaulish: tricontis

References

• Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović's Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)
• Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise, Xavier Delamarre