Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nowe

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 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 Proto-Indo-European *ne-we, from *ne (“not”) +‎ *-wē (“or”), literally “or not”.[1][2] Compare Latin nēve, which was formed identically.

Conjunction

*nowe

  1. or

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *now
  • Old Irish: nó, no, nú, ꝉ

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 885, page 551; reprinted 2017
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 404
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