Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/branos

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 cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *warnás (“raven”). In view of the formal difficulty that a change of *wr- to *br- would be irregular in Celtic, Matasović considers it more likely that this is a loanword from an unknown (substrate?) source.

Noun

*branos m[1]

  1. crow, raven

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *branos *branou *branoi
vocative *brane *branou *branoi
accusative *branom *branou *branons
genitive *branī *branous *branom
dative *branūi *branobom *branobos
locative *branei *? *?
instrumental *branū *branobim *branūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *bran
    • Middle Breton: bran
    • Middle Cornish: bran
    • Middle Welsh: bran
  • Gaulish: Branodūnon (toponymy?)
  • Primitive Irish: ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚔ (brani)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73/74
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