Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/baskis

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.

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”),^[1] which may derive from a non-Indo-European source.^[2] Cognate with Latin fascis (“bundle, faggot”), and perhaps Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “leathern bag, sack”), Albanian bashkë (“fleece”).

*baskis m

1. bundle
2. load

• Proto-Brythonic:
  • Middle Breton: bech
    • Breton: bec'h
  • Middle Welsh: beich
    • Welsh: baich
  • Cornish: begh
  • → Late Latin: bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”)
    • Old French: baschoe, (North) bascat
      • French: bâche, dial. bâchot, bachou
      • → English: basket
• Hispano-Celtic:
  • → Arabic: فَشْقَار (fašqār, “a heap of sheaves”), فَشْقَر (fašqar)
  • → Aragonese: fascal (“a heap of sheaves, a bundle of six sheaves; nautical: a wisp of plaits of raw esparto from which cables are made”), fascar
  • → Galician: vascullo (“a bundle of straw; broom”), bascallo, bascullo, vascallo, vasallo