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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
An *-ets noun from *uɸer- (“over-”) + Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow”), literally “overgrowth”; the same root also yielded Latin crēscō (“to grow”).[1]
Noun
*uɸerkrets m[1][2]
- excess
- surplus
Inflection
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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*uɸerkrets
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*uɸerkrete
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*uɸerkretes
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vocative
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*uɸerkrets
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*uɸerkrete
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*uɸerkretes
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accusative
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*uɸerkretam
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*uɸerkrete
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*uɸerkretams
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genitive
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*uɸerkretos
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*uɸerkretou
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*uɸerkretom
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dative
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*uɸerkretei
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*uɸerkretobom
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*uɸerkretobos
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locative
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*uɸerkreti
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—
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instrumental
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*uɸerkrete?
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*uɸerkretobim
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*uɸerkretobis
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Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Weiss, Michael (2012) “Interesting i-stems in Irish”, in Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau
and Michael Weiss, editors, Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, page 351
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 120: “MW gworgret, gorgret, MoW also gwargred, gwarged (m) ’surplus, remainder’ < *u̯or-kret-, cf. OIr. forcraid (f, earlier n?) ’excess, superfluity’”
Further reading
- Koch, John (2004) “surplus *wor-kretV-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 347