Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/moltos

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. Multiple theories exist.

  • Pokorny derived this from *melh₂- (“to crush”), the semantic distance resolvable under the assumption that castration was done with a crushing method.[1]
  • Matasović, unsatisfied with previous theories, assumes a borrowing from a non-Indo-European substrate language.[2]

Noun

*moltos m

  1. ram, wether

Declension

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *moltos *moltou *moltoi
vocative *molte *moltou *moltoi
accusative *moltom *moltou *moltons
genitive *moltī *moltous *moltom
dative *moltūi *moltobom *moltobos
locative *moltei *? *?
instrumental *moltū *moltobim *moltūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *mollt
    • Middle Breton: mout, maout
    • Cornish: mols
    • Middle Welsh: mollt
  • Old Irish: molt
  • Gaulish: *multon-

References

  1. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 245
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*molto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 275

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