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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
According to Sanas Cormaic, from *an- (“un-, not”) + the present participle of *amati (“to love”),[1] with a reconstructed PIE *n(e)-h₂em-nt-,[1] which would make this noun cognate with Latin amō. However, Matasović disputes this, stating that it looks like folk etymology and that the root *am- is otherwise unattested in Celtic.[1]
Noun
*nāmants m[1][2]
- enemy
Declension
| Masculine/feminine consonant 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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*nāmants
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*nāmante
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*nāmantes
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| vocative
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*nāmants
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*nāmante
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*nāmantes
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| accusative
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*nāmantam
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*nāmante
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*nāmantams
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| genitive
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*nāmantos
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*nāmantou
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*nāmantom
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| dative
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*nāmantei
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*nāmantobom
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*nāmantobos
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| locative
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*nāmanti
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—
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—
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| instrumental
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*nāmante?
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*nāmantobim
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*nāmantobis
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Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nāmant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 283
- ^ Koch, John (2004) “*nāmant-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 108
