Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸerissā
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
The first part is the prefix *ɸeri-, from Proto-Indo-European *péri, locative to *per-. The second element is ambiguous; it could either be:
- *-ssā, which Matasović derives from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁-teh₂.[1]
- *-stā, which Mallory and Adams among many others derive from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.[2]
Noun
*ɸerissā f
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *ɸerissā | *ɸerissai | *ɸerissās |
| vocative | *ɸerissā | *ɸerissai | *ɸerissās |
| accusative | *ɸerissam | *ɸerissai | *ɸerissāns |
| genitive | *ɸerissās | *ɸerissous | *ɸerissom |
| dative | *ɸerissāi | *ɸerissābom | *ɸerissābos |
| locative | *ɸerissai | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *? | *ɸerissābim | *ɸerissābis |
Descendants
- Old Irish: iress, hires, ires, iraes
- Irish: iris (“faith, religion”)
- ⇒ Gaulish: *erissios (derived *-yós adjective)
- → Latin: Ersea (cognomen of a Brescian)[3]
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 128
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 61
- ^ Prósper, Blanca María (2024) “Celto-Venetica: Indo-European Names from North-Eastern Italy and the Dialectal Classification of Venetic”, in Voprosy Onomastiki, volume 21, number 2, pages 9-50