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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/skʷiyats

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 *skwey-, whence came also many Balto-Slavic cognates like Proto-Slavic *xvoja (“conifer needle”).[1]

Noun

*skʷiyats f

  1. hawthorn

Inflection
Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *skʷiyats *skʷiyate *skʷiyates
vocative *skʷiyats *skʷiyate *skʷiyates
accusative *skʷiyatam *skʷiyate *skʷiyatams
genitive *skʷiyatos *skʷiyatou *skʷiyatom
dative *skʷiyatei *skʷiyatobom *skʷiyatobos
locative *skʷiyati — —
instrumental *skʷiyate? *skʷiyatobim *skʷiyatobis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *spɨðad m (“thorn bushes”)[2]
    • Middle Breton: spezadenn
      • Breton: spezad (“gooseberry”)
    • Cornish: spethas f (“briars”)
    • Old Welsh: ispidatenn
      • Middle Welsh: yspidat
        • Welsh: ysbyddad (“hawthorn”), ysbaddad, sbaddad
    • Pictish: *ᚄᚚᚔᚌᚐᚇ (*spijad, “thorn”)[3]
  • Old Irish: scé (“hawthorn”), sciad pl
    • Middle Irish: scé (“thorn bush, whitethorn”), sciach pl
      • Irish: sceach
      • Manx: sceach
      • ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: sceathan (“thorn bush”)
        • → English: Skeen (surname​)

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skʷiyat-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 339
  2. James, Alan (2014) The Brittonic Language in the Old North: A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence‎, volume 2: Dictionary, page 260 of 320
  3. Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish Language: Historiography, Early Evidence and the Question of Pritenic‎, Glasgow: University of Glasgow, page 258-260 of 391
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