Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/tondā

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 *tend- (“to cut off”), similar to Latin tondeo.^[1]

Noun

*tondā f^[1]

surface, skin

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tondā	*tondai	*tondās
vocative	*tondā	*tondai	*tondās
accusative	*tondam	*tondai	*tondāns
genitive	*tondās	*tondous	*tondom
dative	*tondāi	*tondābom	*tondābos
locative	*tondai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*tondābim	*tondābis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic:
- Old Breton: tonnenn
  - Middle Breton: tonenn
    - Breton: tonnenn
- Middle Welsh: tonn, tonnen
Old Irish: tonn, tond
- Middle Irish: tonn
  - Irish: tonn
  - Manx: tonn
  - Scottish Gaelic: tonn
Gaulish: *tondā
- → Latin: tunna, tonna
  - Catalan: tona, tonya
  - Old French: tonne
    - French: tonne
      - → English: tonne
  - Old French: tonel
    - Galician: tonel, tonelada
    - Portuguese: tonel, tonelada
    - Spanish: tonel, tonelada
  - → Proto-West Germanic: *tunnā, *tonnā, *tunnu (see there for further descendants)
>? Gallaecian:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: tona
  - Galician: tona
  - Portuguese: tona

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tonda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 383

[Matasovic-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tonda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 383

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