Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/baskis

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

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”),[1] which may derive from a non-Indo-European source.[2] Cognate with Latin fascis (“bundle, faggot”), and perhaps Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “leathern bag, sack”), Albanian bashkë (“fleece”).

Noun

*baskis m

  1. bundle
  2. load

Declension

Masculine/feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *baskis *baskī *baskīs
vocative *baski *baskī *baskīs
accusative *baskim *baskī *baskins
genitive *baskeis *baskyow *baskyom
dative *baskei *baskibom *baskibos
locative *baskei *? *?
instrumental *baskī *baskibim *baskibis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Middle Breton: bech
      • Breton: bec'h
    • Middle Welsh: beich
    • Cornish: begh
    • → Late Latin: bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”)
      • Old French: baschoe, (North) bascat
  • Hispano-Celtic:
    • → Arabic: فَشْقَار (fašqār, “a heap of sheaves”), فَشْقَر (fašqar)
    • → Aragonese: fascal (“a heap of sheaves, a bundle of six sheaves; nautical: a wisp of plaits of raw esparto from which cables are made”), fascar
    • → Galician: vascullo (“a bundle of straw; broom”), bascallo, bascullo, vascallo, vasallo

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*baski-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 58
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fascis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 203
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