Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ganskyos

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 from earlier *kankskyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱank-sḱ-, from *ḱank- (“branch”)^[1]. Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐍉𐌷𐌰 (hōha, “plough”), Lithuanian šakà (“branch”), Old East Slavic соха (soxa, “stake, club, brace, plough”), Old Armenian ցախ (cʻax, “branch, twig”), Sanskrit शाखा (śā́khā), Persian (šâx, “branch”).

Noun

*ganskyos m

branch, twig

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kankyos	*kankyou	*kankyoi
vocative	*kankye	*kankyou	*kankyoi
accusative	*kankyom	*kankyou	*kankyoms
genitive	*kankyī	*kankyous	*kankyom
dative	*kankyūi	*kankyobom	*kankyobos
locative	*kankyei	*?	*?
instrumental	*kankyū	*kankyobim	*kankyūis

Related terms

Descendants

Old Irish: gésca^[2]
Gaulish: *ganskyos^[3]
- → Vulgar Latin: *ganscius
  - Latin: gascheria, gascaria
    - Old French: gaschiere, gaskiere
      - Middle French: ghasquière, gasquiere, guachière
        French: jachère
  - Galician: gancho (“hook”); ganzo (“branch”)
  - Occitan: gànchou
  - Portuguese: gancho
  - Spanish: gancho
    - → Catalan: ganxo
    - → Italian: gancio
  - Venetan: ganzo (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157
^ Strachan, John (1898) “The compensatory lengthening of vowels in Irish”, in Philological Society (Great Britain)‎, page 252: “gésca 'branch' = *cancscaio”
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Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 244–247

[1] Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157

[2] Strachan, John (1898) “The compensatory lengthening of vowels in Irish”, in Philological Society (Great Britain)‎, page 252: “gésca 'branch' = *cancscaio”

[3] {The template Template:R:es:Roberts:2014 does not use the parameter(s): passage=Celt. *ganskio: branch
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