Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/latis
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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]Matasović, Pokorny, and the GPC assume the senses "beverage" and "swamp" share an etymology.[1] Irslinger breaks with this tradition by positing that they have separate etymologies.[2]
- Cognates identified by Pokorny (which he unites under a root *lat-) include Old High German letto (“silt”), Icelandic leðja (“mud”), Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (látax, “drop of wine”), and Latin latex. Matasović rejects any relation to the Greek and Latin words.
- Matasović, due to struggling to etymologize the *a in this word, assigns substrate origin.
- Irslinger posits two possible Indo-European root origins for the "beverage" sense, Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) and *leh₂- (“to pour”), preferring the latter root. For the sense "swamp", she maintains the comparisons to Old High German letto (“silt”) and Icelandic leðja (“mud”) but assigns no further etymology to them.
Noun
[edit]*latis f[3]
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine/feminine i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *latis | *latī | *latīs |
| vocative | *lati | *latī | *latīs |
| accusative | *latim | *latī | *latims |
| genitive | *lateis | *latyow | *latyom |
| dative | *latei | *latibom | *latibos |
| locative | *latei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *latī | *latibim | *latibis |
Derived terms
[edit]- *latyos (“swamp, mud”, thematization)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Brythonic: *llad (“alcoholic beverage”)
- Old Irish: laith (“alcoholic beverage”)
- Middle Irish: laith
- Gaulish: *latis (“swamp, marsh”)
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lati”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 233
- ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 206
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “late”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 197