Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bonus
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”).[1]
Noun
[edit]*bonus m[2]
Declension
[edit]| Masculine/feminine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *bonus | *bonū | *bonowes |
| vocative | *bonu | *bonū | *bonūs |
| accusative | *bonum | *bonū | *bonums |
| genitive | *bonous | *bonous | *bonowom |
| dative | *bonou | *bonubom | *bonubos |
| locative | *? | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *bonū | *bonubim | *bonubis |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Brythonic: *bon
- Gaulish: *bona
- ⇒ Gaulish: *Windobona
- → Latin: Vindobona
- ⇒ Gaulish: *Windobona
- Old Irish: bun[3] (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959., p. 439
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bonu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language