Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dwār

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 *dʰwṓr.

Noun

*dwār m

door

Declension

Originally an ablauting paradigm following the Proto-Indo-European ancestor:

Accusative singular: *dworam (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwórm̥)
Genitive singular: *duros (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰurós, *dʰurés)

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dwār	*dwore	*dwores
vocative	*dwār	*dwore	*dwores
accusative	*dworam	*dwore	*dworans
genitive	*duros	*durou	*durom
dative	*durei	*durobom	*durobos
locative	*duri	—	—
instrumental	*dure?	*durobim	*durobis

Derived terms

*dworestus (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *dor (from Early Brythonic *dorā, generalized from the accusative *dworam)
- Middle Breton: dor
  - Breton: dor
- Cornish: dor, darat
- Old Welsh: dor
  - Middle Welsh: dor
    - Welsh: dôr
Gaulish: *durom (generalized from the genitive *duros)
- → Latin: Augustodurum
- → Latin: Nemetodurum
  - French: Nanterre

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dworā, *duro-, *dworestu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 111–12