Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sani

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 *sn̥Hi, cognate to Latin sine (“without”).^[1]

Preposition

*sani^[2]

(of motion) apart from

Derived terms

*sanis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *han- (preverb, also prefix used in the conjugation of *a (“from”))
- ⇒ Middle Welsh: hanvot, hanðenu
  - Welsh: hanfod, hamddenu
Old Irish: an- (adverb-forming prefix), ⇒ anall, anúas, anís (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Hamp, Eric (1986) “Varia II”, in Ériu, volume 37, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 183–184
^ Schumacher, Stefan (2022) “The Development of Proto-Celtic *au in British Celtic”, in Simon Rodway, Jenny Rowland, and Erich Poppe, editors, Celts, Gaels, and Britons: Studies in Language and Literature from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Honour of Patrick Sims-Williams (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN

[1] Hamp, Eric (1986) “Varia II”, in Ériu, volume 37, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 183–184

[2] Schumacher, Stefan (2022) “The Development of Proto-Celtic *au in British Celtic”, in Simon Rodway, Jenny Rowland, and Erich Poppe, editors, Celts, Gaels, and Britons: Studies in Language and Literature from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Honour of Patrick Sims-Williams (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN

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