Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸetnos

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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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥.

Noun

*ɸetnos m[1]

  1. bird

Declension

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *ɸetnos *ɸetnou *ɸetnoi
vocative *ɸetne *ɸetnou *ɸetnoi
accusative *ɸetnom *ɸetnou *ɸetnons
genitive *ɸetnī *ɸetnous *ɸetnom
dative *ɸetnūi *ɸetnobom *ɸetnobos
locative *ɸetnei *? *?
instrumental *ɸetnū *ɸetnobim *ɸetnūis

Descendants

  • Brythonic: *edn
    • Middle Breton: ezn
    • Old Cornish: hethen
    • Middle Welsh: edyn
  • Old Irish: én
  • Gaulish: *etnos

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “etno-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 168