Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bolgos

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 *bʰólǵʰ-o-s (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

Noun

*bolgos m

1. sack, bag
2. stomach

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bolgos	*bolgou	*bolgoi
vocative	*bolge	*bolgou	*bolgūs
accusative	*bolgom	*bolgou	*bolgoms
genitive	*bolgī	*bolgous	*bolgom
dative	*bolgūi	*bolgobom	*bolgobos
locative	*bolgei	*?	*?
instrumental	*bolgū	*bolgobim	*bolgūis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *bolɣ
  • Middle Breton: bolc'h
    • Breton: bolc'h
  • Cornish: bolgh
  • Middle Welsh: boly, boliau, byly
    • Welsh: bol, bola
• Old Irish: bolg
  • Irish: bolg
  • Manx: bolg
  • Scottish Gaelic: bolgan
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: saigetbolc
• Gaulish: *bolgā
  • → Medieval Latin: bulga
    • → Old French: bouge, boulge, bolge (see there for further descendants)