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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/asselī
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Possibly of non-Indo-European origin as clear cognates in other languages are lacking, though it could formally match *ad-sel-; see *selwā (“possession”).
Noun
*asselī ?[1]
- part, joint
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Breton: esel
- Cornish: esel
- Old Irish: aisil, aisel, asil
- Irish: aisil
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*asselī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 44