inheritance of *wl̥kʷós (“harmful”). The main <span class="searchmatch">Celtic</span> adjective for "bad", *drukos, might not have used *<span class="searchmatch">messamos</span> as its superlative since its Brittonic reflexes...
See superlative *<span class="searchmatch">messamos</span> for etymology. *messais (superlative *<span class="searchmatch">messamos</span>) worse Goidelic: Old Irish: messa Irish: measa Scottish Gaelic: miosa Manx: messey...