Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/branos
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Proto-Celtic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *warnás (“raven”). In view of the formal difficulty that a change of *wr- to *br- would be irregular in Celtic, Matasović considers it more likely that this is a loanword from an unknown (substrate?) source.
Noun
[edit]*branos m[1]
Inflection
[edit]Masculine o-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *branos | *branou | *branoi |
vocative | *brane | *branou | *branūs |
accusative | *branom | *branou | *branoms |
genitive | *branī | *branous | *branom |
dative | *branūi | *branobom | *branobos |
locative | *branei | *? | *? |
instrumental | *branū | *branobim | *branūis |
Descendants
[edit]- Brythonic: *bran
- Gaulish: Branodūnon (toponymy?)
- Primitive Irish: ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana)
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73/74
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language