Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mlixtus

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

From *mligeti (“to milk”) +‎ *-tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

*mlixtus m

milking, milk yield

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mlixtus	*mlixtū	*mlixtowes
vocative	*mlixtu	*mlixtū	*mlixtūs
accusative	*mlixtum	*mlixtū	*mlixtums
genitive	*mlixtous	*mlixtous	*mlixtowom
dative	*mlixtou	*mlixtubom	*mlixtubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*mlixtū	*mlixtubim	*mlixtubis

Reconstruction notes

Matasović's reconstruction of *mlixtos as being the root of all noun and adjective senses of Middle Irish blicht and Middle Welsh blith^[1] is erroneous, since the past participle should yield Old Irish mlecht, Middle Irish blecht instead of the mlicht and blicht actually encountered.
Due to the lack of vowel lowering in Goidelic, two separate words, an adjective *mlixtis and a noun *mlixtus, must be recontructed.^[2]

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *bliθ
- Middle Welsh: blith
  - Welsh: blith
Middle Irish: blicht (“milk yield”)
- Irish: bleacht

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mlixto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 210

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mlixto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 274

[2] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 210

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