Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/lustā
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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]The usual etymology derives this from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off”) whence also Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”) and Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”),[1] but Matasović refuses to accept this derivation.[2]
Noun
[edit]*lustā f
Inflection
[edit]| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *lustā | *lustai | *lustās |
| vocative | *lustā | *lustai | *lustās |
| accusative | *lustam | *lustai | *lustāms |
| genitive | *lustās | *lustous | *lustom |
| dative | *lustāi | *lustābom | *lustābos |
| locative | *lustai | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *? | *lustābim | *lustābis |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 269
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović[1], Zagreb