Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wātus

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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 *weh₂t- (excited, inspired).

Noun

*wātus m

  1. poetic inspiration

Declension

Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wātus *wātū *wātowes
vocative *wātu *wātū *wātūs
accusative *wātum *wātū *wātums
genitive *wātous *wātous *wātowom
dative *wātou *wātubom *wātubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *wātū *wātubim *wātubis

Descendants

  • Brythonic:
    • Middle Welsh: gwawd
  • Goidelic:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wātu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 405
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fáth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language