Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gʷoniyos

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

Extension of *gʷonos (“killer”) by *-iyos (agent noun suffix).[1]

Noun

*gʷoniyos m

  1. killer

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *gʷoniyos *gʷoniyou *gʷoniyoi
vocative *gʷoniye *gʷoniyou *gʷoniyoi
accusative *gʷoniyom *gʷoniyou *gʷoniyons
genitive *gʷoniyī *gʷoniyous *gʷoniyom
dative *gʷoniyūi *gʷoniyobom *gʷoniyobos
locative *gʷoniyei *? *?
instrumental *gʷoniyū *gʷoniyobim *gʷoniyūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *gwönɨð
    • Middle Welsh: gwenydd
  • Old Irish: -guine (in e.g. sedguine)
    • Middle Irish: -guine (in e.g. corrguine, Bóguine, Finguine)

References

  1. ^ Uhlich, Jurgen (2002) “Verbal governing compounds (synthetics) in Early Irish and other Celtic languages”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 100, number 3, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, page 417
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