Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gʷonos

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 *gʷʰonós,^[1] derived from the root *gʷʰen- (“to strike down”).^[2]

Noun

*gʷonos m

killer

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gʷonos	*gʷonou	*gʷonoi
vocative	*gʷone	*gʷonou	*gʷonoi
accusative	*gʷonom	*gʷonou	*gʷonons
genitive	*gʷonī	*gʷonous	*gʷonom
dative	*gʷonūi	*gʷonobom	*gʷonobos
locative	*gʷonei	*?	*?
instrumental	*gʷonū	*gʷonobim	*gʷonūis

Derived terms

*Tazgogʷonos
*Wirogʷonos
- Proto-Brythonic: *Gwurwan
  - Old Welsh: Guruann
    - Middle Welsh: Guoruan, Guruan
*gʷoniyos

References

^ 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
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “-uanos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 306

[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

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “-uanos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 306

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