Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/uɸodīl-

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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

Schrijver decomposes this as *uɸo- (“under”) + *dīl-,[1] while Lucht prefers to relate this and Middle Irish feidil to Ancient Greek ἆθλος (âthlos).[2]

Noun

*uɸodīl- m

  1. (Insular Celtic) remainder, remnant

Reconstruction notes

  • This term has a confusing formal history.
    • The delenited -ll- in Welsh can be either from an -n- or a *-y- after the -l-.
    • Old Irish fuidel has at times been believed to be borrowed from Brittonic; Schrijver does not seem to follow this, though.

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 322
  2. ^ Lucht, Martina (2007) Der Grundwortschatz des Altirischen‎ (in German), Bonn: Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, page 246
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