Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bakkos

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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

Unknown. Historically linked to Latin baculum (“staff, rod”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *bak-. Matasović assumes a wanderword origin.

Noun

*bakkos m

  1. hook, (curved) stick

Declension

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *bakkos *bakkou *bakkoi
vocative *bakke *bakkou *bakkūs
accusative *bakkom *bakkou *bakkoms
genitive *bakkī *bakkous *bakkom
dative *bakkūi *bakkobom *bakkobos
locative *bakkei *? *?
instrumental *bakkū *bakkobim *bakkūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic:
  • Old Irish: bacc

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 93
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bakko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 52
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