Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kelɸurnos

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 and probably a Wanderwort; similar words appear in Latin calpar and Ancient Greek κάλπις (kálpis).[1] According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *kelp- (“cauldron, jar”), also compared to the British placename Cilurnum.[2]

Noun

*kelɸurnos m

  1. pail, bucket
  2. pitcher
  3. pot, vat, vessel

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kelɸurnos *kelɸurnou *kelɸurnoi
vocative *kelɸurne *kelɸurnou *kelɸurnoi
accusative *kelɸurnom *kelɸurnou *kelɸurnons
genitive *kelɸurnī *kelɸurnous *kelɸurnom
dative *kelɸurnūi *kelɸurnobom *kelɸurnobos
locative *kelɸurnei *? *?
instrumental *kelɸurnū *kelɸurnobim *kelɸurnūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *kelurn
    • Middle Breton: quelorn
    • Cornish: kelorn
    • Old Welsh: cilurnn
  • Old Irish: cilorn, cilornn
    • Middle Irish: cilurn, cilornd, cilarn

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kelfurno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 198-199
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “kelp-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 555
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