Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/lukūts
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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]Unknown; most likely from a non-Indo-European substrate language.[1] According to Stokes, related to Old Irish loch (“dark, black”), from Proto-Indo-European *léwks (“light, shine”).[2]
Noun
[edit]*lukūts f
Declension
[edit]| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *lukūts | *lukote | *lukotes |
| vocative | *lukūts | *lukote | *lukotes |
| accusative | *lukotam | *lukote | *lukotans |
| genitive | *lukotos | *lukotou | *lukotom |
| dative | *lukotei | *lukotobom | *lukotobos |
| locative | *lukoti | — | — |
| instrumental | *lukote? | *lukotobim | *lukotobis |
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Brythonic: *llug, *llugod (see there for further descendants)
- Old Irish: luch
- Gaulish: *lucot-
- ⇒ Gaulish: Lucotios, Λουκοτικνος (Loukotiknos)
- ⇒ Gaulish: *Lucotiācon
- → Latin: Locoteiaco
- French: Ligugé
- → Latin: Locoteiaco
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “luch”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN