Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/branos
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *warnás (“raven”). In view of the formal difficulty that a change of *wr- to *br- would be irregular in Celtic, Matasović considers it more likely that this is a loanword from an unknown (substrate?) source.
Noun[edit]
*branos m[1]
Inflection[edit]
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *branos | *branou | *branoi |
| vocative | *brane | *branou | *branūs |
| accusative | *branom | *branou | *branoms |
| genitive | *branī | *branous | *branom |
| dative | *branūi | *branobom | *branobos |
| locative | *branei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *branū | *branobim | *branūis |
Descendants[edit]
- Brythonic: *bran
- Gaulish: Branodūnon (toponymy?)
- Primitive Irish: ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana)
References[edit]
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73/74
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language