Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/trīkonts

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

Proto-Celtic numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: *trīkonts

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *tridḱómt.

Numeral

*trīkonts

1. thirty

Inflection

Masculine/feminine consonant stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*trīkonts	*trīkonte	*trīkontes
vocative	*trīkonts	*trīkonte	*trīkontes
accusative	*trīkontam	*trīkonte	*trīkontans
genitive	*trīkontos	*trīkontou	*trīkontom
dative	*trīkontei	*trīkontobom	*trīkontobos
locative	*trīkonti	—	—
instrumental	*trīkonte?	*trīkontobim	*trīkontobis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *trigunt
  • Old Breton: tricont, trigont
    • Middle Breton: tregont
      • Breton: tregont
• Old Irish: trícho
  • Middle Irish: trícha
    • Irish: tríocha
• Gaulish: tricontis

References

• Matasović, Ranko (December 2011), “*trīkont-”, in “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb, page 40
• Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “tricontis”, 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 302