Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/brokkos

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

Unknown.[1] Possible cognate with Old High German braccho (“sniffer dog”), for which see Middle English rache.[2]

Noun

*brokkos m

badger

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*brokkos	*brokkou	*brokkoi
vocative	*brokke	*brokkou	*brokkūs
accusative	*brokkom	*brokkou	*brokkoms
genitive	*brokkī	*brokkous	*brokkom
dative	*brokkūi	*brokkobom	*brokkobos
locative	*brokkei	*?	*?
instrumental	*brokkū	*brokkobim	*brokkūis

Synonyms

*taskos

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *brox
- Middle Breton: broc'h
  - Breton: broc'h
- Old Cornish: broch
  - Cornish: brogh
- Middle Welsh: broch
  - Welsh: broch
Primitive Irish: ᚁᚏᚑᚉᚔ (broci, genitive)
- Middle Irish: brocc
  - Irish: broc
  - Manx: brock
  - Scottish Gaelic: broc
Gaulish: broco-, *brokkos
- → Latin: broccus (“buck-teeth”) (see there for further descendants)
→ Old English: brocc, broc
- Middle English: brok
  - English: brock

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*brokko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80
Kroonen, Guus (2006), “Gemination and Allomorphy in the Proto-Germanic Stems: Bottom and Rime”, in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik‎, volume 61, issue 1, pages 17-25

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*brokko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80

[2] Kroonen, Guus (2006), “Gemination and Allomorphy in the Proto-Germanic Stems: Bottom and Rime”, in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik‎, volume 61, issue 1, pages 17-25