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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Unknown, possibly a substrate word due to the irregular phonetic shape.[1] Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back, ridge”), but this root is itself of uncertain origin.[2]
Noun
*krokkenom n
- skin
- Synonyms: *kennos, *knissos
Inflection
Neuter o-stem
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singular
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dual
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plural
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nominative
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*krokkenom
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*krokkenou
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*krokkenā
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vocative
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*krokkenom
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*krokkenou
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*krokkenā
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accusative
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*krokkenom
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*krokkenou
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*krokkenā
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genitive
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*krokkenī
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*krokkenous
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*krokkenom
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dative
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*krokkenūi
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*krokkenobom
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*krokkenobos
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locative
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*krokkenei
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*?
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*?
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instrumental
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*krokkenū
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*krokkenobim
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*krokkenūis
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Reconstruction notes
- Reconstructing neuter gender hinges entirely on Middle Irish croicni in the nominative plural.
- This word was phonetically unstable across Celtic. Welsh and Old Cornish show a coexisting form *kroknom and Gaulish has replaced the ending with -īnā.
- Fortson contemplates the possibility that *kroknom appearing in Welsh and Old Cornish was the original form and that the -kenn- elsewhere was inserted under the influence of synonymous *kennos.[3]
Descendants
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*krok(ke)no-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 226
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “craicionn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
- ^ Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2010 July 15) “On ‘double-nasal’ presents in Celtic and Indo-European and a new Irish sound law”, in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, volume 57, number 2010, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →DOI, →ISSN, page 59