Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/salixs

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

Probably a Wanderwort from an unknown source.^[1] Cognate to Latin salix, Proto-Germanic *salhô, and also Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē) with divergent ablaut.

Noun

*salixs f

willow

Inflection

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*salixs	*salike	*salikes
vocative	*salixs	*salike	*salikes
accusative	*salikam	*salike	*salikans
genitive	*salikos	*salikou	*salikom
dative	*salikei	*salikobom	*salikobos
locative	*saliki	—	—
instrumental	*salike?	*salikobim	*salikobis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *hėlɨg (from oblique stem)
- Breton: haleg (with unexplained reversal of i-affection)
- Old Cornish: heligen (singulative)
  - Cornish: helyk
- Old Welsh: helic
  - Middle Welsh: helyg, helyc, helic
    - Welsh: helyg
Old Irish: sail
- Middle Irish: sail
  - Irish: sail
- ⇒ Middle Irish: *sailech
  - Irish: saileach
  - Manx: shellagh
  - Scottish Gaelic: seileach
Gaulish: *salicā
- → Latin: Salica, ⇒ Salicogenna, Salicilla
  - French: Saulges, Saugues

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*salik-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 319–320

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*salik-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 319–320

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