Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷennom

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Unknown: “all attempts to identify a PIE root have proven futile”.

Possibly, via *kpwen-nó-m, from a heteroclitic *kápwl̥ ~ *kap-wén-s “head”, from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold, seize”).

Noun

*kʷennom n

1. head

Declension

Neuter o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kʷennom	*kʷennou	*kʷennā
vocative	*kʷennom	*kʷennou	*kʷennā
accusative	*kʷennom	*kʷennou	*kʷennā
genitive	*kʷennī	*kʷennous	*kʷennom
dative	*kʷennūi	*kʷennobom	*kʷennobos
instrumental	*kʷennū	*kʷennobim	*kʷennobis

Derived terms

• *Kʷennowindos
• *Kunokʷennos

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *penn
  • Cumbric: pen
  • Old Breton: penn, pen
    • Breton: penn
  • Old Cornish: pen
    • Middle Cornish: pen
  • Old Welsh: penn
    • Middle Welsh: penn
      • Welsh: pen
  • Pictish: *ᚚᚓᚅ
• Primitive Irish: ᚉᚒᚅᚐ-ᚉᚓᚅᚅᚔ (cuna-cenni) (genitive)
  • Old Irish: cenn
    • Middle Irish: cenn
      • Irish: ceann
      • Manx: kione
      • Scottish Gaelic: ceann
• Gaulish: pennon, Penno-ouindos, Cuno-pennus