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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From *weilos (“modest”) + *-iyā (forms nouns from adjectives).
Noun
*weiliyā f[1][2]
- modesty
Inflection
| Feminine ā-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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*weiliyā
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*weiliyai
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*weiliyās
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| vocative
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*weiliyā
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*weiliyai
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*weiliyās
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| accusative
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*weiliyam
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*weiliyai
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*weiliyāns
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| genitive
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*weiliyās
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*weiliyous
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*weiliyom
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| dative
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*weiliyāi
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*weiliyābom
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*weiliyābos
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| locative
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*weiliyai
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*?
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*?
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| instrumental
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*?
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*weiliyābim
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*weiliyābis
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Reconstruction notes
Matasović seems to be under the impression that Welsh gwyledd m, due to its masculine gender, may have come from a masculine/neuter counterpart *weiliyo-. This is impossible; the ending -edd can only have come from *-iyā (*-iyo- would have yielded **-ydd). The Welsh word can only have gained masculine gender from a secondary gender switch.
Descendants
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wēliyo/ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 410
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “uelio-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 311
