Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/audom

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

Some derivative of *au (“from”); the -dom element may be compared with *andom and Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon).

Adverb

*audom

  1. thence[1]

Usage notes

Serves as the 3rd-person masculine/neuter singular conjugation for *au in Insular Celtic.

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *hanọð (3rd-person masculine conjugation of *a, prefixed with *han- from *sani)
    • Middle Breton: anez- (conjugated stem of a)
      • Breton: anez (“otherwise, without”), anezh- (3rd-person conjugation stem of a)
    • Middle Cornish: anotho (3rd-person singular masculine)
      • Cornish: anodh-, anedh- (third-person stems of a)
    • Old Welsh: hanaud
      • Middle Welsh: ohanaw, ohonaw (3sg. m. forms of o), -aw (3sg. masc. ending of conjugated prepositions[2])
        • Welsh: ohono (3sg. masc. of o), -o (ending of 3sg. masc. conjugated prepositions)
  • Old Irish: úad

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan (2022) “The Development of Proto-Celtic *au in British Celtic”, in Simon Rodway, Jenny Rowland, and Erich Poppe, editors, Celts, Gaels, and Britons: Studies in Language and Literature from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Honour of Patrick Sims-Williams (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN
  2. ^ Peter Schrijver (1997) Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles (Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics; II), Maynooth: The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, § 2.6.5, pages 35-36
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