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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to heat, warm”) (whence also *gʷereti) + *-ets, but Matasović struggles to understand the semantics of such a derivation.
Noun
*gʷerets f
- tallow
Inflection
Masculine/feminine consonant stem
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plural
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*gʷerets
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| vocative
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*gʷerets
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| accusative
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*gʷeretam
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| genitive
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*gʷeretos
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*gʷeretei
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| locative
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*gʷereti
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*gʷerete?
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Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 58-59
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gʷered-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 146
