Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bleidanī

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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

Related to synonymous *blēdū, but with no known Indo-European cognates. Matasović says Pennaod’s connection of this word with Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale”) (compare Old Church Slavonic блѣдъ (blědŭ, “pale”), Old English blāt (“pale”), Lithuanian blaĩvas (“whitish”) “is possible formally… the semantic connection is weak.” Stokes suggests Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ- (“to glide”) (Proto-Germanic *glīdaną), but MacBain writes that an evolution of ǵʰ- into Celtic b- is doubtful.[1][2]

Noun

*bleidanī f

  1. year

Declension

Feminine ī/yā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *bleidanī *bleidanī *bleidaniyās
vocative *bleidanī *bleidanī *bleidaniyās
accusative *bleidanīm *bleidanī *bleidanīms
genitive *bleidanyās *bleidanyous *bleidanyom
dative *bleidanyai *bleidanyābom *bleidanyābos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *? *bleidanyābim *bleidanyābis

Descendants

Further reading

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*blēdanī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
  • Pennaod, Jord (1986) “La désignation de l’année en celtique [The designation of the year in Celtic]”, in Études Celtiques (in French), volume 23, pages 53–56
  • Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 242–46

References

  1. ^ Stokes, Whitley, Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1894) Urkeltischer Sprachschatz (Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen; Zweiter Theil) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 188
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “bliadhna”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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