Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/galarom

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 *ǵʰelH-ro-, cognate to Hittite 𒆗𒆷𒅈 (kal-la-ar /⁠kallar-⁠/, “evil, unpleasant, unhealthy; inauspicious; enormous”), and possibly also Old English gealla (“gall”) and Lithuanian žalà (“damage”).[1]

Noun

*galarom n

  1. a distressing or painful condition, such as:
    1. (Goidelic) disease, illness
    2. (Brittonic) grief, sorrow

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *galarom *galarou *galarā
vocative *galarom *galarou *galarā
accusative *galarom *galarou *galarā
genitive *galarī *galarous *galarom
dative *galarūi *galarobom *galarobos
locative *galarei *? *?
instrumental *galarū *galarobim *galarūis

Reconstruction notes

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *galar (“grief, sorrow”)
    • Middle Breton: glachar
      • Breton: glacʼhar
    • Cornish: galar
    • Middle Welsh: galar
  • Old Irish: galar (“disease, pain”)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*galaro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 149
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