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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From a root noun derived from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”).
Preposition
*writ-
- against, opposite
- towards
- by, at, next to
Reconstruction notes
- The reconstruction of this preposition is complicated.
- Old Irish pretonic fris- and conjugation stem fris- are indicative of an original *writs. This cannot give the Brittonic forms, however.
- Alternative Old Irish frith- and the Brittonic forms indicate a proto-form *writi.
- Gordon resolves the discrepancy by reconstructing a base root noun *writs, locative singular *writi, from which the two stems attested in Celtic can be derived.[1]
- Schrijver takes *writi to be ancestral to all Celtic forms, but this dogma forces him to assume an irregular development -t > -ts- > -ss- for the Old Irish conjugated forms which is contradicted flagrantly by the 3rd-person singular forms of verbs (ending in *-ti).
- Matasović's reconstruction *writu-[2] is incorrect, since it is phonologically impossible for Old Irish fri or its conjugated forms to come from this.
Descendants
References
- ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 62-65
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*writu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 431