Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wātus

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 *weh₂t- (“excited, inspired”).[1]

Noun

*wātus m[1]

  1. poetic inspiration

Declension

Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wātus *wātū *wātowes
vocative *wātu *wātū *wātūs
accusative *wātum *wātū *wātuns
genitive *wātous *wātous *wātowom
dative *wātou *wātubom *wātubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *wātū *wātubim *wātubis

Descendants

  • Brythonic:
    • Middle Welsh: gwawd
  • Goidelic:[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wātu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 405
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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