Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/galarom

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 *ǵʰelH-ro-, cognate to Hittite 𒆗𒆷𒅈 (kal-la-ar /⁠kallar-⁠/, “evil, unpleasant, unhealthy; inauspicious; enormous”), and possibly also Old English gealla (“gall”) and Lithuanian žalà (“damage”).

Noun

*galarom n

1. a distressing or painful condition, such as:
   1. (Goidelic) disease, illness
   2. (Brittonic) grief, sorrow

Reconstruction notes

• Matasović erroneously marks Middle Breton glachar as Cornish and Cornish galar as Middle Breton.

Inflection

Neuter o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*galarom	*galarou	*galarā
vocative	*galarom	*galarou	*galarā
accusative	*galarom	*galarou	*galarā
genitive	*galarī	*galarous	*galarom
dative	*galarūi	*galarobom	*galarobos
locative	*galarei	*?	*?
instrumental	*galarū	*galarobim	*galarūis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *galar (“grief, sorrow”)
  • Middle Breton: glachar
    • Breton: glac'har
  • Cornish: galar
  • Middle Welsh: galar
    • Welsh: galar
• Old Irish: galar (“disease, pain”)
  • Middle Irish: galar
    • Irish: galar
    • Manx: gorley
    • Scottish Gaelic: galar