Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/weidwūs

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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 *weydwōs, from *weyd- (to know) +‎ *-wōs (stative participle suffix), literally who has witnessed.[1]

Noun

*weidwūs m[1]

  1. witness

Inflection

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *weidwūs *weiduse *weiduses
vocative *weidwūs *weiduse *weiduses
accusative *weidusam *weiduse *weidusams
genitive *weidusos *weidusou *weidusom
dative *weidusei *weidusobom *weidusobos
locative *weidusi
instrumental *weiduse? *weidusobim *weidusobis

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of N-stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 115