Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/abankos

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 the oblique stem of the n-stem Proto-Indo-European *h₂ép-h₃ō ~ *h₂p-h₃nés (which yielded *abū (“river”) in Celtic; from the root *h₂ep- (“water”)), suffixed with *-kos.^[1]^[2]

Noun

*abankos m

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*abankos	*abankou	*abankoi
vocative	*abanke	*abankou	*abankoi
accusative	*abankom	*abankou	*abankoms
genitive	*abankī	*abankous	*abankom
dative	*abankūi	*abankobom	*abankobos
locative	*abankei	*?	*?
instrumental	*abankū	*abankobim	*abankūis

Related terms

*abū

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *aβank (“aquatic creature, beaver; dwarf”)
- Old Breton: abac (“dwarf”), amach
  - Breton: avank (“beaver”)
- Middle Welsh: afanc, aðanc
  - Welsh: afanc, addanc
Old Irish: abacc, abac (“dwarf”) (with unexplained devoicing of the velar)
- Middle Irish: abacc, abac
  - Irish: abhac

References

^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 312
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*abon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 23–24

[1] Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 312

[2] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*abon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 23–24

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