Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dauyeti

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 Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“kindle, burn”) (compare Tocharian A twās, Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō)).^[1]

Verb

*dauyeti^[1]

to kindle, burn

Derived terms

*atidawinos
- Breton: etev
- Cornish: yttew
- Middle Welsh: etewyn
  - Welsh: etewyn, tewyn
*kondauyeti (“to kindle”)
- Proto-Brythonic:
  - Middle Welsh: kynneu
    - Welsh: cynnau
*kondoutos (“kindling”)
- Proto-Brythonic: *kundʉd
  - Cornish: kunys
  - Breton: keuneud
  - Middle Welsh: kynnut
    - Welsh: cynnud
- Old Irish: condud

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic:
- Old Breton: deuu
  - Middle Breton: devo
    - Breton: deviñ
- Cornish: dewi
- Middle Welsh: deifyaw
  - Welsh: deifio
Old Irish: dóïd
- Middle Irish: dóigid
  - Irish: dóigh
  - Manx: daah
  - Scottish Gaelic: dòth

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*daw-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 92

[EDPC-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*daw-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 92

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