Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷezdis

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

Unknown; possibly borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate source as no Indo-European cognates appear to exist.^[1]

Noun

*kʷezdis f

piece, portion

Declension

Masculine/feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kʷezdis	*kʷezdī	*kʷezdīs
vocative	*kʷezdi	*kʷezdī	*kʷezdīs
accusative	*kʷezdim	*kʷezdī	*kʷezdins
genitive	*kʷezdeis	*kʷezdyow	*kʷezdyom
dative	*kʷezdei	*kʷezdibom	*kʷezdibos
locative	*kʷezdei	*?	*?
instrumental	*kʷezdī	*kʷezdibim	*kʷezdibis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *peθ
- Middle Breton: pez
  - Breton: pezh
- Cornish: peth, pyth
- Old Welsh: ped
  - Middle Welsh: peth
    - Welsh: peth
  - Pictish:
    - → Scottish Gaelic: pett^[2]
    - → English: peat
Old Irish: cuit
- Middle Irish: cuit
  - Irish: cuid
  - Manx: cooid
  - Scottish Gaelic: cuid
Gaulish: *pettyā
- → Latin: pettia (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 179
^ Rhys, Guto (2015): Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 179

[2] Rhys, Guto (2015): Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic

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