Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gablā

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 *gʰh̥₁bʰ-leh₂, likely from *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”) (though Matasovic admits the possibility of a substrate borrowing).[1]

Noun

*gablā f

  1. fork

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *gablā *gablai *gablās
vocative *gablā *gablai *gablās
accusative *gablam *gablai *gablāns
genitive *gablās *gablous *gablom
dative *gablāi *gablābom *gablābos
locative *gablai *? *?
instrumental *? *gablābim *gablābis

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *gaβl
    • Old Breton: gabl
    • Cornish: gowl
    • Middle Welsh: gafl
      • Welsh: gafl
      • ⇒ Welsh: Yr Eifl (from the dual form *h(ɨ/e)nn ɣėβl < *sindī gablī < *sindai gablai)
  • Old Irish: gabul
  • Gaulish: gabalos, gablos
    • → Old French: gable
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *gabulu (see there for further descendants)
    • → Latin: gabalus (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gablo/ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 147-8
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.