Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gʷoni

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

Verbal noun of *gʷaneti. This o-grade i-stem (with the Indo-European o-grade deverbal nominal suffix *-i) would be the only one of its kind in Celtic, which is why Gordon reconstructs zero-grade *gʷani analogous to the present stem *gʷane-.[1]

Noun

*gʷoni n[2]

  1. blow, strike

Alternative reconstructions

Inflection

Neuter i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *gʷoni *gʷonī *gʷonyā
vocative *gʷoni *gʷonī *gʷonyā
accusative *gʷoni *gʷonī *gʷonyā
genitive *gʷonois *gʷonois *gʷonyom
dative *gʷonei *gʷonibom *gʷonibos
locative *gʷonei *? *?
instrumental *gʷonī *gʷonibim *gʷonibis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Middle Welsh: gwan (“blow, strike”)
      • Welsh: gwân
  • Old Irish: guin
    • Middle Irish: guin f
      • Irish: goin
      • Scottish Gaelic: goin
      • Manx: guinn

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) “gon- ‘strike, smite'”, in Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, §3.1.61, page 224
  2. ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 104
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