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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nemetom
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute”).[1]
Inflection
Neuter o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *nemētom | *nemētou | *nemētā |
vocative | *nemētom | *nemētou | *nemētā |
accusative | *nemētom | *nemētou | *nemētā |
genitive | *nemētī | *nemētous | *nemētom |
dative | *nemētūi | *nemētobom | *nemētobos |
locative | *nemētei | *? | *? |
instrumental | *nemētū | *nemētobim | *nemētūis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *neβ̃ed
- Old Breton: -nimet
- Middle Breton: neved (“sanctuary”)
- Breton: neñved
- Middle Breton: neved (“sanctuary”)
- Old Welsh: -nivet
- Middle Welsh: nyuet
- Welsh: nyfed (“sacred grove”)
- Middle Welsh: nyuet
- Old Breton: -nimet
- Gaulish: νεμητον
- → Latin: Nemetum
- ⇒ Latin: Augustonemetum (“Clermont-Ferrand”) (place-name)
- ⇒ Latin: Nemetodurum (place-name)
- French: Nanterre
- → Latin: Nemetum
- Old Irish: nemed, neimed
- Irish: neimheadh
- Hispano-Celtic:
- →⇒ Latin: Nemetobriga (place-name)
- → Galician: Nendos (place-name)
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nemeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 288
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