Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/snāmus

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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]

Alternative reconstructions[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From *snā- +‎ *-mus (verbal noun ending for verbs eventually becoming hiatus verbs in Old Irish).

Noun[edit]

*snāmus m

  1. swimming

Inflection[edit]

The o-stem declension assigned by Matasović is erroneous; there is no evidence of such inflection in any early Celtic language.

Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *snāmus *snāmū *snāmowes
vocative *snāmu *snāmū *snāmūs
accusative *snāmum *snāmū *snāmums
genitive *snāmous *snāmous *snāmowom
dative *snāmou *snāmubom *snāmubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *snāmū *snāmubim *snāmubis

Descendants[edit]

  • Proto-Brythonic: *hnọβ̃
  • Old Irish: snám

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*snāmo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 348