Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/luxtus

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.

Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *lewǵ- (“to fracture, break”) (see Sanskrit रुजति (rujati)).[1] However, many Celticists like Delamarre, Irslinger and Matasović express skepticism of a semantic connection to that root.

Noun

*luxtus m[2]

  1. contents
  2. people, crowd

Declension

Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *luxtus *luxtū *luxtowes
vocative *luxtu *luxtū *luxtūs
accusative *luxtum *luxtū *luxtuns
genitive *luxtous *luxtous *luxtowom
dative *luxtou *luxtubom *luxtubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *luxtū *luxtubim *luxtubis

Descendants

  • Brythonic:
    • Old Breton: loit
    • Old Cornish: leid
    • Old Welsh: luidt, luith, tluith
      • Middle Welsh: luith
  • Old Irish: lucht
  • Gaulish: luxtos (gen. sg.)

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “686”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 686
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 251
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