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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/welīts

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 *weleti (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel-.

Noun

*welīts m[1]

  1. seer
  2. poet

Reconstruction notes

An *ī must be reconstructed in the stem to account for the term surfacing in Old Irish as fili, with vowel raising and a final vowel, and not **feil.[1][2]

Declension
Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *welīts *welete *weletes
vocative *welīts *welete *weletes
accusative *weletam *welete *weletams
genitive *weletos *weletou *weletom
dative *weletei *weletobom *weletobos
locative *weleti — —
instrumental *welete? *weletobim *weletobis

Descendants
  • Primitive Irish: ᚃᚓᚂᚔᚈᚐᚄ (velitas)
    • Old Irish: fili
      • Irish: file
      • Manx: feelee
      • Scottish Gaelic: filidh
  • >? Gaulish: *weletos
    • → Latin: uiilts

References
  1. Stifter, David (2011) “Lack of Syncope and other nichtlautgesetzlich Vowel Developments in OIr. Consonant-Stem Nouns. Animacy Rearing its Head in Morphology?”, in Krisch, Thomas, Lindner, Thomas, Crombach, Michael, Niederreiter, Stefan, editors, Indogermanistik und Linguistikim Dialog Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaftvom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 556–565
  2. Kim McCone (1994) “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, section 17.1, page 112

Further reading
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “welet-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 410
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003) 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
  • Mans Lead Tablets
  • Ziegler, Sabine (1994) “VELITAS”, in Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften [The language of the Old Irish Ogham inscriptions] (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 244
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