Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷritus

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 the root of *kʷareti +‎ *-tus.

Noun

*kʷritus m^[1]^[2]

form, shape
moment, time

Inflection

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kʷritus	*kʷritū	*kʷritowes
vocative	*kʷritu	*kʷritū	*kʷritūs
accusative	*kʷritum	*kʷritū	*kʷrituns
genitive	*kʷritous	*kʷritous	*kʷritowom
dative	*kʷritou	*kʷritubom	*kʷritubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*kʷritū	*kʷritubim	*kʷritubis

Derived terms

*kʷritiyos (“shaper, former”)
- Proto-Brythonic: *prɨdɨð
  - Middle Welsh: prydyð
    - Welsh: prydydd
- Primitive Irish: ᚊᚏᚔᚈᚈᚔ (qritti)

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *prɨd
- Old Cornish: prit
  - Middle Cornish: prys
- Middle Breton: pret
  - Breton: pred
- Middle Welsh: pryd, pryt
  - Welsh: pryd (“form, time”)
Old Irish: cruth (“form”), crud
- Irish: cruth
- Manx: croo
- Scottish Gaelic: cruth

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 182
^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 93

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 182

[2] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002) Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 93

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