Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mīnis
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”), whence also Latin mītis, Lithuanian meilė, and Sanskrit मयस् (mayas).[1]
Adjective
Inflection
| I-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *mīnis | *mīnī | *mīnīs |
| vocative | *mīni | *mīnī | *mīnīs |
| accusative | *mīnim | *mīnī | *mīnins |
| genitive | *mīneis | *mīnyou | *mīnyom |
| dative | *mīnei | *mīnibom | *mīnibos |
| instrumental | *mīnī | *mīnibim | *mīnibis |
| feminine | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *mīnis | *mīnī | *mīnīs |
| vocative | *mīni | *mīnī | *mīnīs |
| accusative | *mīnim | *mīnī | *mīnins |
| genitive | *mīneis | *mīnyou | *mīnyom |
| dative | *mīnei | *mīnibom | *mīnibos |
| instrumental | *mīnī | *mīnibim | *mīnibis |
| neuter | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *mīni | *mīnī | *mīnyā |
| vocative | *mīni | *mīnī | *mīnyā |
| accusative | *mīni | *mīnī | *mīnyā |
| genitive | *mīnois | *mīnois | *mīnyom |
| dative | *mīnē | *mīnibom | *mīnibos |
| instrumental | *mīnī | *mīnibim | *mīnibis |
Related terms
Descendants
- Old Irish: mín
- Gaulish: *minios
- → Latin: Minius, Minnius
- →⇒ Latin: Adminius
- →⇒ Latin: Cominius
- →⇒ Latin: Minicius, Minicia
- →⇒ Latin: Minuso
- →⇒ Latin: Minna
- →⇒ Latin: Viminus
- →⇒ Latin: Viminacium
- →⇒ Latin: Viminavus
- French: Vimeu
- →⇒ Latin: Vimina
- French: Visme
- → German: Wümme
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “minio-, meno-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 227
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 119