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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/moltos
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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.
- The American Heritage Dictionary among others derive this from the Proto-Indo-European root *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”).[1][2]
- Pokorny derived this from *melh₂- (“to crush”), the semantic distance resolvable under the assumption that castration was done with a crushing method.[3]
- Matasović, unsatisfied with previous theories, assumes a borrowing from a non-Indo-European substrate language.[4]
Declension
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *moltos | *moltou | *moltoi |
| vocative | *molte | *moltou | *moltūs |
| accusative | *moltom | *moltou | *moltoms |
| genitive | *moltī | *moltous | *moltom |
| dative | *moltūi | *moltobom | *moltobos |
| locative | *moltei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *moltū | *moltobim | *moltūis |
Descendants
References
- “mutton”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 245
- 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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