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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/budīnā
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Perhaps from the same source as *boudi (“victory, booty”).
Noun
*budīnā f[1]
- host, troop
Declension
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *budinā | *budinai | *budinās |
| vocative | *budinā | *budinai | *budinās |
| accusative | *budinam | *budinai | *budināms |
| genitive | *budinās | *budinous | *budinom |
| dative | *budināi | *budinābom | *budinābos |
| locative | *budinai | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *? | *budinābim | *budinābis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *büðin
- Old Breton: bodin
- Middle Welsh: byddin
- Welsh: byddin
- Old Irish: buiden
- Irish: buíon
- Gaulish: budīnā
- → Late Latin: bodina (“frontier”), Budenicus (theonym)
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*budina-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 82