Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/doliskos

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 *dol- (“leaf”) +‎ Proto-Indo-European *-(i)skos.^[1]^[2]

Noun

*doliskos m

edible seaweed of the species Palmaria palmata: dulse, dilisk

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*doliskos	*doliskou	*doliskoi
vocative	*doliske	*doliskou	*doliskoi
accusative	*doliskom	*doliskou	*doliskoms
genitive	*doliskī	*doliskous	*doliskom
dative	*doliskūi	*doliskobom	*doliskobos
locative	*doliskei	*?	*?
instrumental	*doliskū	*doliskobim	*doliskūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *dölɨsk
- Breton: tellesk (with irregular devoicing of the initial consonant)
- Middle Welsh: delysc, dilysc
  - Welsh: delysg
Old Irish: duilesc (normalized), duilix (attested in Laws with metathesis)
- Middle Irish: duilesc
  - Irish: duileasc
    - → English: dulse, dilisk

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dol-isko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 103
^ Stifter, David (2023) “With the Back to the Ocean: The Celtic Maritime Vocabulary”, in Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen and Eske Willerslev, editors, The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 180

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dol-isko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 103

[2] Stifter, David (2023) “With the Back to the Ocean: The Celtic Maritime Vocabulary”, in Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen and Eske Willerslev, editors, The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 180

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