Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wostos

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 *h₂wos-tos, from *h₂wes- (“to dwell”).[1][2] Related to *woseti (“to spend the night”) and *westā (“staying the night”).

Matasović, opting for a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wóstu (more specifically, the alternative reconstruction *wéh₂stu), reconstructs *wastu.[3] His derivation suffers greatly from the fact that no evidence of u-stem inflection exists in Celtic.

Noun

*wostos m[1]

  1. a state of being stationary or at rest
  2. abode, dwelling

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wostos *wostou *wostoi
vocative *woste *wostou *wostoi
accusative *wostom *wostou *wostons
genitive *wostī *wostous *wostom
dative *wostūi *wostobom *wostobos
locative *wostei *? *?
instrumental *wostū *wostobim *wostūis

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Middle Welsh: gwas (“abode”)
  • Old Irish: foss (“being stationary, at rest”)
    • Classical Gaelic: fos

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 257
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 408-409
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wastu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 404
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