Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/krenxtus

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

Unknown; Matasović gives no etymology.[1]

Irslinger notes a few previous old suggestions:[2]

  • Pedersen relates this to Lithuanian krekti (“to clot”), present stem kreñk-, but the -n- is a nasal infix, being unhelpful in providing a source for the -n- needed to produce the long vowel in Irish créacht, a noun.
  • Lane (1937) relates this to Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną (“to shrink”).

Noun

*krenxtus m[2]

  1. wound, injury

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *krenxtus *krenxtū *krenxtowes
vocative *krenxtu *krenxtū *krenxtūs
accusative *krenxtum *krenxtū *krenxtuns
genitive *krenxtous *krenxtous *krenxtowom
dative *krenxtou *krenxtubom *krenxtubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *krenxtū *krenxtubim *krenxtubis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *kreɨθ
    • Old Breton: creithi pl
      • Middle Breton: creizenn
        • Breton: kleizhenn
    • Middle Welsh: creith, creyt
  • Old Irish: crécht
    • Middle Irish: crécht
      • Irish: créacht
      • Scottish Gaelic: creuchd

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kre(n)xtu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 222
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 139
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