Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/biwotūts

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 *biwos (“alive”) +‎ *-tūts (suffix deriving abstracts from adjectives).

Noun

*biwotūts m^[1]^[2]

life

Inflection

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*biwotūts	*biwotūte	*biwotūtes
vocative	*biwotūts	*biwotūte	*biwotūtes
accusative	*biwotūtam	*biwotūte	*biwotūtans
genitive	*biwotūtos	*biwotūtou	*biwotūtom
dative	*biwotūtei	*biwotūtobom	*biwotūtobos
locative	*biwotūti	—	—
instrumental	*biwotūte?	*biwotūtobim	*biwotūtobis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *bɨwöd
- Middle Welsh: bywyt
  - Welsh: bywyd
Old Irish: bethu, beothu, bethad
- Middle Irish: betha
  - Irish: beatha
  - Manx: bea
  - Scottish Gaelic: beatha

References

^ de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999), Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 397
^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bywyd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

[1] Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999), Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 397

[2] R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bywyd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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