Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/branos

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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

Possibly cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *warnás (raven). In view of the formal difficulty that a change of *wr- to *br- would be irregular in Celtic, Matasović considers it more likely that this is a loanword from an unknown (substrate?) source.

Noun

*branos m[1]

  1. crow, raven

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *branos *branou *branoi
vocative *brane *branou *branoi
accusative *branom *branou *branoms
genitive *branī *branous *branom
dative *branūi *branobom *branobos
locative *branei *? *?
instrumental *branū *branobim *branūis

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73/74
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language