Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dusyos

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 Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes- (“to breathe”).[1][2] The suffix may be *-yós (adjectival suffix).

Noun

*dusyos m

  1. demon, spirit

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *dusyos *dusyou *dusyoi
vocative *dusye *dusyou *dusyoi
accusative *dusyom *dusyou *dusyons
genitive *dusyī *dusyous *dusyom
dative *dusyūi *dusyobom *dusyobos
locative *dusyei *? *?
instrumental *dusyū *dusyobim *dusyūis

Reconstruction

  • Matasović reconstructs an o-grade root for this word,[1] while Gordon reconstructs a zero grade.[3]

Descendants

  • ⇒ Proto-Brythonic: (with major taboo deformations)
    • Breton: Diz (“the Devil”)
    • Cornish: dus
  • Middle Irish: dóe (“human”) (poetic)
  • Gaulish: dusios (“type of demon”)
    • → Basque: tusuri (“the Devil”)
    • → Latin: dusius

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dwosyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 112
  2. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “dusios”, in 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, page 158
  3. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 486
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