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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/blātus
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From earlier *bʰléh₃tus ~ *bʰl̥h₃téw-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-.
Noun
*blātus m[1]
- flower, blossom
Inflection
Masculine/feminine u-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *blātus | *blātū | *blātowes |
vocative | *blātu | *blātū | *blātūs |
accusative | *blātum | *blātū | *blātums |
genitive | *blātous | *blātous | *blātowom |
dative | *blātou | *blātubom | *blātubos |
locative | *? | *? | *? |
instrumental | *blātū | *blātubim | *blātubis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *blọd
- Old Breton: bloduu
- Middle Breton: bleuzff
- Breton: bleuñv
- Middle Breton: bleuzff
- Old Cornish: blodon
- Cornish: bleujen
- Middle Welsh: blawt
- Welsh: blawd, blodyn
- Old Breton: bloduu
- Gaulish: *blātōnā, blātunā, Blātumagos
- → Medieval Latin: bladona
- Italian: belladonna (through pseudoetymology)
- → Medieval Latin: bladona
- Goidelic:
- Old Irish: bláth[2]
- Irish: bláth
- Manx: blaa
- Scottish Gaelic: blàth
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*blātu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 67/68
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bláth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language