Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bonus

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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

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”).[1]

Noun

*bonus m[2]

  1. foundation, base, butt

Declension

Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *bonus *bonū *bonowes
vocative *bonu *bonū *bonūs
accusative *bonum *bonū *bonums
genitive *bonous *bonous *bonowom
dative *bonou *bonubom *bonubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *bonū *bonubim *bonubis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *bon
  • Gaulish: *bona
  • Old Irish: bun[3] (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959., p. 439
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bonu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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