Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷresnom

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 *kʷres- (“bush, thicket”); related to Proto-West Germanic *hursti (archaic English hurst) and Ancient Greek πρῖνος (prînos, “holm oak”).

Noun

*kʷresnom n

  1. tree
  2. wood

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kʷresnom *kʷresnou *kʷresnā
vocative *kʷresnom *kʷresnou *kʷresnā
accusative *kʷresnom *kʷresnou *kʷresnā
genitive *kʷresnī *kʷresnous *kʷresnom
dative *kʷresnūi *kʷresnobom *kʷresnobos
locative *kʷresnei *? *?
instrumental *kʷresnū *kʷresnobim *kʷresnūis

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *prenn
    • Old Breton: pren
    • Old Cornish: pren
    • Middle Welsh: prenn
    • Cumbric: *prenn
  • Old Irish: crann
  • Gaulish: prenne (“big tree”)

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kʷresno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 181
  • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 160
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