Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/knūs

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 a hypothetical Pre-Celtic *knuHs, which in view of the vacillating consonantism in Germanic and Latin (from *knuds and *knuks respectively) is probably a post-PIE loanword from a European substrate language. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hnuts, Latin nux.

Noun

*knūs f

  1. nut

Inflection

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *knūs *knuwe *knuwes
vocative *knūs *knuwe *knuwes
accusative *knuwam *knuwe *knuwans
genitive *knuwos *knuwou *knuwom
dative *knuwei *knuwobom *knuwobos
locative *knuwi — —
instrumental *knuwe? *knuwobim *knuwobis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *know pl
    • Old Breton: cnou
    • Cornish: know
    • Middle Welsh: kneu
  • Old Irish: cnú

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 237-238
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 212
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