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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bekkos
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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
Uncertain; possibly of "expressive" origin,[1] or perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *bakkos (“hook, curved stick”),[2] the latter possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”).
Declension
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *bekkos | *bekkou | *bekkoi |
| vocative | *bekke | *bekkou | *bekkūs |
| accusative | *bekkom | *bekkou | *bekkoms |
| genitive | *bekkī | *bekkous | *bekkom |
| dative | *bekkūi | *bekkobom | *bekkobos |
| locative | *bekkei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *bekkū | *bekkobim | *bekkūis |
Descendants
Further reading
- Losquiño, Irene García (2018) “The North Germanic place-name element bec in England, Normandy and Galicia”, in Namn och Bygd, Gustav Adolfs Akademien, pages 14-20
- Henry, Victor (1900) “bék”, in Lexique étymologique des termes les plus usuels du breton moderne (Bibliothèque bretonne armoricaine; III) (in French), Rennes: J. Plihon et L. Hervé, page 29
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “bek(k)o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 60
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “beak”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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