Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/lustā

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

The usual etymology derives this from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off”) whence also Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”) and Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”),^[1] but Matasović refuses to accept this derivation.^[2]

Noun

*lustā f

(anatomy) tail

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lustā	*lustai	*lustās
vocative	*lustā	*lustai	*lustās
accusative	*lustam	*lustai	*lustāns
genitive	*lustās	*lustous	*lustom
dative	*lustāi	*lustābom	*lustābos
locative	*lustai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*lustābim	*lustābis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *llost
- Breton: lost
- Middle Cornish: lost
  - Cornish: lost
- Middle Welsh: llost
  - Welsh: llost
Middle Irish: los
- Scottish Gaelic: los (“purpose”)

References

^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 269
^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎, Zagreb

[1] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 269

[2] Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎, Zagreb

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