Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dol-
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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 *dʰelh₁-.[1]
Noun
[edit]*dol- f
Reconstruction notes
[edit]Explaining the final i-affection in Brittonic is difficult.
- Matasović's suggestion to derive the Brittonic forms from *dolyā does not work, since *-yā cannot cause i-affection.
- An i-stem *dolis, although finding parallels in other Indo-European o-grade *-is nouns, is troubled by the fact that short *i cannot cause final i-affection of any vowel other than *e. The plural of an i-stem, if reconstructed as monophthongized *-eyes > *-īs, can yield the Brittonic forms but Schrijver rejects such a development existing (he thinks the i-stem plural instead yielded Welsh -ydd).
- De Vaan reconstructs *dalī, assuming the zero-grade of the root.[2] The suffix can cause Brittonic i-affection, but this Celtic word family must have had the o-grade throughout given the derived singulative *dolinyā and its Goidelic reflexes in Old Irish duilne, Middle Irish duille etc. This poses a problem since Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ does not naturally use the o-grade of a root.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Brythonic: *döl
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dol-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 102-103
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “folium”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 230