Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wextom

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 *weǵʰ- (“to bring, to transport”).[1]

Noun

*wextom n[2]

  1. time, course, turn
  2. work
  3. carrying, transport

Declension

Neuter o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wextom *wextou *wextā
vocative *wextom *wextou *wextā
accusative *wextom *wextou *wextā
genitive *wextī *wextous *wextom
dative *wextūi *wextobom *wextobos
locative *wextei *? *?
instrumental *wextū *wextobim *wextūis

Reconstruction notes

This word became confused with the similarly-shaped (but unrelated) *wixtā in Insular Celtic.

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *gweiθ
    • Old Breton: gueid
    • Old Cornish: gueid
    • Middle Welsh: gweith
  • Old Irish: fecht (“time”), fect
    • Irish: feacht
    • Scottish Gaelic: feachd
  • Celtiberian: ueitui (dat. sg.)[3]

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wextā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419/420
  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 251-252
  3. ^ Prósper, Blanca María (2011) “The Hispano-Celtic Divinity ILVRBEDA, Gold Mining in Western Hispania and the Syntactic Context of Celtiberian arkatobezom ‘Silver Mine’”, in Die Sprache, volume 49, number 1, page 72
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