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Reconstruction:Gaulish/boduos
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Gaulish
Etymology
Confirmed indirectly by immediately derived personal names Boduos in Gaulish and Boduus in Latin and derived itself from Proto-Celtic *bodwos (“fighting”).[1] The ascertainment and development of its semantics is partly difficult but the relation to the Irish raven battle goddess Badb, with Old Irish badb being an evident and sufficiently early cognate, can not be discarded anyways.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈbod.wos]
Noun
*boduos m
- A fighter.
- (mythology) A raven, a crow related to war.
- (uncommon, by extension) A raven, a crow.
Declension
declension of Gaulish/boduos
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *boduos | *boduoi |
| Vocative | *bodue | *boduoi |
| Accusative | *boduon, *boduom | *boduōs, *boduūs |
| Genitive | *boduoiso, *bodui | *boduon |
| Dative | *boduūi, *boduū | *boduobo, *boduobos |
| Instrumental | *boduū | *boduuis, *boduūs |
| Locative | *boduei, *boduē | *boduois |
References
- Koch, John (2019), Common Ground and Progress on the Celtic of the South-Western Inscriptions, Aberystwyth: Wales University, p. 43
- "bodua" in Delamarre, Xavier (2003), Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise - Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, Paris: Errance