Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/lukūts

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; most likely from a non-Indo-European substrate language.[1]

Noun

*lukūts f

  1. mouse

Declension

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *lukūts *lukote *lukotes
vocative *lukūts *lukote *lukotes
accusative *lukotam *lukote *lukotans
genitive *lukotos *lukotou *lukotom
dative *lukotei *lukotobom *lukotobos
locative *lukoti — —
instrumental *lukote? *lukotobim *lukotobis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *llug
    • Old Breton: loc
    • Middle Welsh: llyg
      • Welsh: llyg (“shrew”)
  • Old Irish: luch
  • Gaulish: *lucot-
    • ⇒ Gaulish: Lucotios, Λουκοτικνος (Loukotiknos)
    • ⇒ Gaulish: *Lucotiācon
      • → Latin: Locoteiaco
        • French: Ligugé

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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