From *trougos (“miserable, pitiful”) + *karos (“loving”), literally “loving the pitiful”.
*trougokaros
O/ā-stem | |||
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masculine | singular | dual | plural |
nominative | *trougokaros | *trougokarou | *trougokaroi |
vocative | *trougokare | *trougokarou | *trougokaroi |
accusative | *trougokarom | *trougokarou | *trougokaroms |
genitive | *trougokarī | *trougokarous | *trougokarom |
dative | *trougokarūi | *trougokarobom | *trougokarobos |
instrumental | *trougokarū | *trougokarobim | *trougokarobis |
feminine | singular | dual | plural |
nominative | *trougokarā | *trougokarai | *trougokarās |
vocative | *trougokarā | *trougokarai | *trougokarās |
accusative | *trougokaram | *trougokarai | *trougokarams |
genitive | *trougokarās | *trougokarous | *trougokarom |
dative | *trougokarai | *trougokarābom | *trougokarābos |
instrumental | *? | *trougokarābim | *trougokarābis |
neuter | singular | dual | plural |
nominative | *trougokarom | *trougokarou | *trougokarā |
vocative | *trougokarom | *trougokarou | *trougokarā |
accusative | *trougokarom | *trougokarou | *trougokarā |
genitive | *trougokarī | *trougokarous | *trougokarom |
dative | *trougokarūi | *trougokarobom | *trougokarobos |
instrumental | *trougokarū | *trougokarobim | *trougokarobis |
Declension of the comparative | |||
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masculine | singular | dual | plural |
nominative | *trougokaryūs | *? | *trougokaryoses |
vocative | *trougokaryūs | *? | *trougokaryoses |
accusative | *trougokaryosam | *? | *trougokaryosams |
genitive | *trougokarisos | *? | *trougokarisom |
dative | *trougokarisei | *? | *trougokarisbos |
instrumental | *trougokarisī | *? | *trougokarisbis |
feminine | singular | dual | plural |
nominative | *trougokaryūs | *? | *trougokaryoses |
vocative | *trougokaryūs | *? | *trougokaryoses |
accusative | *trougokaryosam | *? | *trougokaryosams |
genitive | *trougokarisos | *? | *trougokarisom |
dative | *trougokarisei | *? | *trougokarisbos |
instrumental | *trougokarisī | *? | *trougokarisbis |
neuter | singular | dual | plural |
nominative | *trougokaris | *? | *? |
vocative | *trougokaris | *? | *? |
accusative | *trougokaris | *? | *? |
genitive | *trougokarisos | *? | *trougokarisom |
dative | *trougokarisei | *? | *trougokarisbos |
instrumental | *trougokarisī | *? | *trougokarisbis |
Matasović reconstructs *trougkaros, without a thematic vowel,[1] but it is morphologically bizarre to do so for a derivative of a thematic adjective and as such will not be followed here. An athematic compound is not required to explain the phonology of any descendants, since the outcome of Proto-Brythonic *-ɣg- (arising after lenition of g and k and syncope of o) is regularly /ɡ/ in the Brythonic languages, and the parallel Goidelic *-ɣx- regularly becomes /k/ in Old Irish.