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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bardos

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 *gʷerH-dʰh₁o- (praise-maker), from *gʷerH- (to approve, praise) + *dʰeh₁- (to do, make), with a loss of the laryngeal in *gʷerH-.[1]

Noun

*bardos m

  1. poet, bard

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *bardos *bardou *bardoi
vocative *barde *bardou *bardūs
accusative *bardom *bardou *bardoms
genitive *bardī *bardous *bardom
dative *bardūi *bardobom *bardobos
locative *bardei *? *?
instrumental *bardū *bardobim *bardūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *barð
    • Middle Breton: barz
    • Old Cornish: barth
      • Cornish: bardh
    • Middle Welsh: bardd
  • Old Irish: bard
  • Latin: bardus

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 56-7
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