Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/skeidā

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

No etymology assigned by the EDPC.^[1] Pokorny suggests a derivation from *skeyd- (“to cut”), which also appears in Latin scindō.^[2]

Noun

*skeidā f

shoulder

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*skeidā	*skeidai	*skeidās
vocative	*skeidā	*skeidai	*skeidās
accusative	*skeidam	*skeidai	*skeidāms
genitive	*skeidās	*skeidous	*skeidom
dative	*skeidāi	*skeidābom	*skeidābos
locative	*skeidai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*skeidābim	*skeidābis

Reconstruction

The masculine gender in Goidelic is probably taken over from *skeitos (“shield”).^[2]

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *skuɨð
- Middle Breton: scoaz
  - Breton: skoaz
- Old Cornish: scuid
  - Middle Cornish: scoth
    - Cornish: skoodh
- Old Welsh: iscuid
  - Middle Welsh: ysgwyd
    - Welsh: ysgwydd
Old Irish: scíath (“wing”) (conflated with scíath (“shield”))
- Middle Irish: scíath (“wing”)
  - Scottish Gaelic: sgiath (“wing, fin”)
- ⇒ Middle Irish: scíathán
  - Irish: sciathán
  - Manx: skian
  - Scottish Gaelic: sgiathan

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “skēdo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 341
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 221

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “skēdo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 341

[S-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 221

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