Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/udenskyos

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

Etymology

From a suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *udén-, the oblique stem of *wódr̥ (“water”).

Noun

*udenskyos m

1. (Goidelic) water

   Synonym: *dubros

Declension

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*udenskyos	*udenskyou	*udenskyoi
vocative	*udenskye	*udenskyou	*udenskyoi
accusative	*udenskyom	*udenskyou	*udenskyons
genitive	*udenskyī	*udenskyous	*udenskyom
dative	*udenskyūi	*udenskyobom	*udenskyobos
locative	*udenskyei	*?	*?
instrumental	*udenskyū	*udenskyobim	*udenskyūis

Related Terms

Proto-Celtic *udnā (“water”)

• Gaulish: onno (“river”)
• Proto-Celtic: *ande-udnā (“underground water”)
  • Gaulish: ανδοουνναβο (andoounnabo, “underground source spring”)

Descendants

• Old Irish: uisce
  • Irish: uisce, uisge (obsolete)
    • → English: whiskey
  • Manx: ushtey
  • Scottish Gaelic: uisge
    • → English: whisky

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*uden-sk-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 395
• Delamarre, Xavier, Lambert, Pierre-Yves (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 48 & 241
• Savignac, Jean-Paul (2004) Dictionnaire français-gaulois, →ISBN, page 165 & 313