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Proto-Celtic
Suffix
*-tā f[1]
- Creates verbal nouns or abstracts from verbal roots.
- *teig- (“to go”) + *-tā → *tixtā (“going”)
Inflection
| Feminine ā-stem
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*-tā
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*-tai
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*-tās
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| vocative
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*-tā
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*-tai
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*-tās
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| accusative
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*-tam
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*-tai
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*-tāms
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| genitive
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*-tās
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*-tous
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*-tom
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| dative
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*-tāi
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*-tābom
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*-tābos
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| locative
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*-tai
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*?
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*?
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| instrumental
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*?
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*-tābim
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*-tābis
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Usage notes
- The root is either in the zero-grade or e-grade. Both grades appear inconsistently in both Brittonic and Goidelic even for the same verb roots.
- Displaced *-tis for most purposes. For the verbs *bwiyeti and *bereti, the two suffixes coexisted in their related verbal nouns.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 321-385
