Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nowe

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 Proto-Indo-European *ne-we, from *né (“not”) +‎ *-we (“or”), literally “or not”.^[1]^[2] Compare Latin nēve, which was formed identically.

Conjunction

*nowe

or

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *now
- Old Breton: nou
- Old Welsh: neu, nou
  - Middle Welsh: neu
    - Welsh: neu, nou
Old Irish: nó, no, nú, ꝉ
- Irish: nó
- Manx: ny
- Scottish Gaelic: no, neo

References

^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 885, page 551; reprinted 2017
^ 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 404

[1] Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 885, page 551; reprinted 2017

[2] 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 404

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