Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kolanis

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

*kolanī (based on the Welsh)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kel(H)-, whence also Proto-Germanic *huldą (“corpse, carcass”).^[1]

Noun

*kolanis f

body, corpse

Inflection

Old Irish and Welsh disagree on the inflection of this word; Old Irish has an i-stem while Welsh is more indicative of an ī-stem.

Masculine/feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kolanis	*kolanī	*kolanīs
vocative	*kolani	*kolanī	*kolanīs
accusative	*kolanim	*kolanī	*kolanims
genitive	*kolaneis	*kolanyow	*kolanyom
dative	*kolanei	*kolanibom	*kolanibos
locative	*kolanei	*?	*?
instrumental	*kolanī	*kolanibim	*kolanibis

Feminine ī/yā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kolanī	*kolanī	*kolaniyās
vocative	*kolanī	*kolanī	*kolaniyās
accusative	*kolanīm	*kolanī	*kolanīms
genitive	*kolanyās	*kolanyous	*kolanyom
dative	*kolanyai	*kolanyābom	*kolanyābos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*kolanyābim	*kolanyābis

Descendants

Old Irish: colinn
- Irish: colainn
- Manx: callin
- Scottish Gaelic: colann
Proto-Brythonic: *kölẹn
- Breton: kelan
- Middle Welsh: kelein
  - Welsh: celain

References

^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 95

[1] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 95

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