Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wimmonā

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; most likely from a non-IE substrate language, or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weyb- (“to wind around”).[1] Attested only in the Insular Celtic languages, unless the Iberian Romance words for “asphodel” are derived from a Celtic language.

Reconstructed by Hamp as *wismon-.[2][3]

Noun

*wimmonā f[4]

  1. seaweed

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wimmonā *wimmonai *wimmonās
vocative *wimmonā *wimmonai *wimmonās
accusative *wimmonam *wimmonai *wimmonāns
genitive *wimmonās *wimmonous *wimmonom
dative *wimmonāi *wimmonābom *wimmonābos
locative *wimmonai *? *?
instrumental *? *wimmonābim *wimmonābis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *gwɨmon
    • Old Breton: goumon
      • Middle Breton: gwemon
        • → Middle French: goumon
    • Cornish: gommon, gobmon
    • Welsh: gwymon
  • Middle Irish: femain, femmain, femm
  • >? Proto-Ibero-Romance: *gamōnem (“asphodel”)

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “u̯eip-, u̯eib-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1132
  2. ^ Hamp, Eric P. (1978–80) “Notulae etymologicae cymricae”, in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, volume 28, pages 213–17
  3. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 158
  4. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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