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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bitus
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃-tus (“life”).[1] Cognate with Latin vita.
Noun
*bitus m[1]
- world
Inflection
Masculine/feminine u-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *bitus | *bitū | *bitowes |
vocative | *bitu | *bitū | *bitūs |
accusative | *bitum | *bitū | *bitums |
genitive | *bitous | *bitous | *bitowom |
dative | *bitou | *bitubom | *bitubos |
locative | *? | *? | *? |
instrumental | *bitū | *bitubim | *bitubis |
Descendants
- Brythonic: *bɨd
- Old Breton: bit, bet
- Breton: bed
- Old Cornish: bit, bys
- Cornish: bys, bes
- Old Welsh: bid
- Middle Welsh: byd
- Welsh: byd
- Middle Welsh: byd
- Old Breton: bit, bet
- Gaulish: Biturīges
- → Latin: Bituriges
- Goidelic:
- Old Irish: bith[2]
- Irish: bith
- Old Irish: bith[2]
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*bitu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 67
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language