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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kurmi

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 cognate with Latin cremor (“thick juice made by boiling grain”), Sanskrit करम्भ (karambha, “barley porridge, soup, mixture”), Russian корм (korm, “food”),[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kremH- (“to burn”).[2][3]

Noun

*kurmi n[4]

  1. beer

Declension
Neuter i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kurmi *kurmī *kurmyā
vocative *kurmi *kurmī *kurmyā
accusative *kurmi *kurmī *kurmyā
genitive *kurmois *kurmois *kurmyom
dative *kurmei *kurmibom *kurmibos
locative *kurmei *? *?
instrumental *kurmī *kurmibim *kurmibis

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *kurβ̃
    • Middle Breton: coref
      • Breton: korev
    • Old Cornish: coruf
      • Middle Cornish: coref
        • Cornish: korev
    • Old Welsh: curum
      • Middle Welsh: cwrwf
    • Proto-Brythonic: *kürβ̃ėsi
  • Old Irish: cuirm
  • Gaulish: curmi, curmí, κόρμα (kórma), κούρμι (koúrmi)
    • ⇒ Gaulish: *kurmēsyā (+ *-ēsyā, apparently with /m/ > /β̃ ~ w̃/ mutation)

References
  1. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 263
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “3. ker(ə)-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 571-572
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kormi”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217
  4. Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “curmi”, 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 133: “*curmi”
  5. Koch, John (2004) “*kurmen-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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