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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wēdwūs

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 *weydwōs, from *weyd- (“to know”) +‎ *-wōs (stative participle suffix), literally “who has witnessed”.[1]

Noun

*wēdwūs m[1]

  1. witness

Inflection
Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wēdwūs *wēduse *wēduses
vocative *wēdwūs *wēduse *wēduses
accusative *wēdusam *wēduse *wēdusams
genitive *wēdusos *wēdusou *wēdusom
dative *wēdusei *wēdusobom *wēdusobos
locative *wēdusi — —
instrumental *wēduse? *wēdusobim *wēdusobis

Derived terms
  • nowēdwūs (“infant”)
    • Old Irish: noídiu
      • Irish: naíon, naí
      • Scottish Gaelic: naoidhean

Descendants

References
  1. Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of N-stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 115
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