Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/glanis

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

Nominalization of *glanos (“clear”).^[1]

Noun

*glanis f^[2]

clearness
something clear or transparent

Inflection

Masculine/feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glanis	*glanī	*glanīs
vocative	*glani	*glanī	*glanīs
accusative	*glanim	*glanī	*glanins
genitive	*glaneis	*glanyow	*glanyom
dative	*glanei	*glanibom	*glanibos
locative	*glanei	*?	*?
instrumental	*glanī	*glanibim	*glanibis

Descendants

⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *glėn (< thematicized *glanyos)
- Old Welsh: gleiniou pl
  - Middle Welsh: glein (“pearl, bead, gem”)
    - Welsh: glain
Old Irish: glain (“crystal, glass”)
- Middle Irish: glain
Gaulish: *glanis
- → Latin: Glanis
Celtiberian: *glanis
- → Ancient Greek: Γλάνις (Glánis, name of a river in Spain)

References

^ Weiss, Michael (2012) “Interesting i-stems in Irish”, in Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau and Michael Weiss, editors, Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, page 347
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “glano-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 180

[1] Weiss, Michael (2012) “Interesting i-stems in Irish”, in Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau and Michael Weiss, editors, Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, page 347

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “glano-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 180

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