Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸletos

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 *pléth₂-os (“breadth”), from *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”).

Noun

*ɸletos n

breadth
side

Inflection

Neuter s-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ɸletos	*ɸletese?	*ɸletesa
vocative	*ɸletos	*ɸletese?	*ɸletesa
accusative	*ɸletos	*ɸletese?	*ɸletesa
genitive	*ɸletesos	*ɸletesous?	*ɸletesom
dative	*ɸletesē	*ɸletesbom	*ɸletesbos
locative	*ɸletesi	*?	*?
instrumental	*ɸletesē	*ɸletesbim	*ɸletesbis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *lled
- Middle Breton: let, led (“large”), led (“greatness”)
  - Breton: led
- Cornish: les
- Middle Welsh: lled (“breadth, width, half”)
  - Welsh: lled
Old Irish: leth (“side”)
- Irish: leath
- Manx: lieh
- Scottish Gaelic: leth

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*letos”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 238-239

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