Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nu
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Proto-Celtic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”).[1]
Adverb
[edit]*nu
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Brythonic: *nʉ (with irregular full grade)
- Middle Welsh: nu
- Old Irish: nu (archaic adverb), no- (dummy preverb for simple verbs)
- Gaulish: nu (attested in the Lezoux plate)
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nu”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 294