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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Probably imitative in origin. While formally similar to Proto-West Germanic *hūō and Proto-Slavic *sovà, regular derivation of these terms from a common root appears to be phonologically impossible.
Although often reconstructed as *kawannos on the evidence of the Latin borrowing,[1] this cannot explain the Brythonic reflexes, which can only reflect *kuwann-.[2] Schrijver suggests that -av- in the Latin borrowings may represent the adaption of a Gaulish sound sequence foreign to Latin phonology.[3]
Noun
*kuwannos m
- owl
Declension
Masculine 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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*kuwannos
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*kuwannou
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*kuwannoi
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vocative
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*kuwanne
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*kuwannou
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*kuwannoi
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accusative
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*kuwannom
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*kuwannou
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*kuwannoms
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genitive
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*kuwannī
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*kuwannous
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*kuwannom
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dative
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*kuwannūi
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*kuwannobom
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*kuwannobos
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locative
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*kuwannei
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*?
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*?
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instrumental
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*kuwannū
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*kuwannobim
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*kuwannūis
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Descendants
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kawanno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) “Schrijver’s rules for British and Proto-Celtic *-ou̯- and *-uu̯- before a vowel”, in Laws and Rules in Indo-European, pages 147-158
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 335
Further reading
- Jørgensen, Anders Richardt (2024) “A bird name suffix *-anno- in Celtic and Gallo-Romance”, in Guus Kroonen, editor, Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, Results, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, pages 133-156