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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/welīts

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 *weleti (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel-.

Noun

*welīts m[1]

  1. seer
  2. poet

Reconstruction notes

An *ī must be reconstructed in the stem to account for the term surfacing in Old Irish as fili, with vowel raising and a final vowel, and not **feil.[1][2]

Declension
Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *welīts *welete *weletes
vocative *welīts *welete *weletes
accusative *weletam *welete *weletams
genitive *weletos *weletou *weletom
dative *weletei *weletobom *weletobos
locative *weleti — —
instrumental *welete? *weletobim *weletobis

Descendants
  • Primitive Irish: ᚃᚓᚂᚔᚈᚐᚄ (velitas)
    • Old Irish: fili
      • Irish: file
      • Manx: feelee
      • Scottish Gaelic: filidh
  • >? Gaulish: *weletos
    • → Latin: uiilts

References
  1. Stifter, David (2011), “Lack of Syncope and other nichtlautgesetzlich Vowel Developments in OIr. Consonant-Stem Nouns. Animacy Rearing its Head in Morphology?”, in Indogermanistik und Linguistikim Dialog Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaftvom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 556–565
  2. Kim McCone (1994), “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, 17.1, page 112

Further reading
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009), “welet-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 410
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN
  • Mans Lead Tablets
  • Ziegler, Sabine (1994), “VELITAS”, in Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften [The language of the Old Irish Ogham inscriptions] (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 244
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