Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷrīyess

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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

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Etymology

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Generally agreed to be related to Latin creta (clay, chalk, soil), but the relationship is mysterious.[1][2][3] The Latin word itself could be related to cerno (I separate), Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, to divide, separate), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-.

Mallory & Adams reconstruct *tkʷreh₁yot-, adding Tocharian B tukri (clay);[4] Matasovic suggests *kʷreh₁ + Proto-Celtic *-yet-, adding that the Tocharian words could have had their own prefix. However, these all could have instead been borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.

Noun

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*kʷrīyess ?

  1. clay

Inflection

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Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kʷrīyets *kʷrīyete *kʷrīyetes
vocative *kʷrīyets *kʷrīyete *kʷrīyetes
accusative *kʷrīyetam *kʷrīyete *kʷrīyetams
genitive *kʷrīyetos *kʷrīyetou *kʷrīyetom
dative *kʷrīyetei *kʷrīyetobom *kʷrīyetobos
locative *kʷrīyeti
instrumental *kʷrīyete? *kʷrīyetobim *kʷrīyetobis

Descendants

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  • Brythonic: *prið
    • Old Breton: pri
    • Cornish: pri
    • Middle Welsh: pridd
  • Old Irish: cré

References

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  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “crè”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  2. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pridd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kʷrīyet”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 182-83
  4. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121