Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/knissos

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

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *kneyd- (“to scratch”) + *-tós. The same root also yielded Old Norse hníta (“to strike”) and Ancient Greek κνίζω (knízō, “to scratch”).[1] The semantic evolution may have gone from "scratched (thing)" > "skin".[2]

Noun

*knissos m

  1. skin
    Synonyms: *krokkenom, *kennos
  2. flesh

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *knissos *knissou *knissoi
vocative *knisse *knissou *knissoi
accusative *knissom *knissou *knissons
genitive *knissī *knissous *knissom
dative *knissūi *knissobom *knissobos
locative *knissei *? *?
instrumental *knissū *knissobim *knissūis

Reconstruction notes

The vowel of Middle Welsh cnes is irregular; one would expect **cnys. It must have been influenced by or borrowed from a cognate where the -e- would be regular.

  • *knidā (“wound”)
    • Old Irish: cned
      • Middle Irish: cned
        • Irish: cneá (reformed spelling), cneadh (classical spelling)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (December 2011) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎[1], Zagreb, page 22
  2. ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 263-264
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