Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kēlyos

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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

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly originally meaning "wayfarer," from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (to settle), similar to the sense development of Old Irish séitig (wife) from *sentus (way, path). Stokes instead compares Latin cacula (servant).

Noun

*kēlyos m

  1. companion
  2. servant

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kēlyos *kēlyou *kēlyoi
vocative *kēlye *kēlyou *kēlyūs
accusative *kēlyom *kēlyou *kēlyoms
genitive *kēlyī *kēlyous *kēlyom
dative *kēlyūi *kēlyobom *kēlyobos
locative *kēlyei *? *?
instrumental *kēlyū *kēlyobim *kēlyūis

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kēlyo- / *kilyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 199–200
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “ceil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
  3. ^ Stokes, Whitley, Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1894) Urkeltischer Sprachschatz (Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen; Zweiter Theil) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 66