Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sunus

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 *suHnús.

Noun

*sunus m[1]

  1. son
    Synonym: *makʷos

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *sunus *sunū *sunowes
vocative *sunu *sunū *sunūs
accusative *sunum *sunū *sununs
genitive *sunous *sunous *sunowom
dative *sunou *sunubom *sunubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *sunū *sunubim *sunubis

Reconstruction notes

  • Delamarre denies the existence of this word in Celtic, and instead derives many Gaulish derivatives, assigned here by De Bernardo Stempel, from the word family of *sounos (“sleep”) instead.[2]

Descendants

  • Gaulish: *sunus
    • →⇒ Latin: Lemisunia, Suniducus, Sunducca, Sunucus, Sunutius, Sunutia, Sunnura, Sunuxalis
  • ⇒ Celtiberian: Ebursunos (literally “Yewson”) (compound with *eburos (“yew”))
  • →⇒ Latin: Callīsunus (name of a Britannian man, borrowed from a very early Brittonic language, compound with *kallī (“woods”))

References

  1. ^ De Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (2013) “Celtic ‘son’, ‘daughter’, other descendants, and *sunus in Early Celtic”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 118, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 259-297
  2. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2013) “Dea Sunuχsalis”, in Studia Celtica Fennica, volume 10, Finnish Society for Celtic Studies, →ISSN, pages 5–7
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