Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/batom

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

Substantivization of the past participle *batos of *bayeti (“to die”).[1]

Noun

*batom n[2]

  1. death
  2. pestilence

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *batom *batou *batā
vocative *batom *batou *batā
accusative *batom *batou *batā
genitive *batī *batous *batom
dative *batūi *batobom *batobos
locative *batei *? *?
instrumental *batū *batobim *batūis

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *bad
    • Old Breton: bat
      • Middle Breton: badou pl
      • ⇒ Middle Breton: badet (“dazzled”)
        • Breton: badet (“stupefied”)
    • ⇒ Old Cornish: badus (“lunatic”)
    • Middle Welsh: bad
      • ⇒ Middle Welsh: bad felen (“yellow plague, basilisk”)
        • Welsh: bad felen (“yellow plague, basilisk”)
  • Middle Irish: bath (“death”)

References

  1. ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 261-262
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 59
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