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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bāus
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Because of the way root nouns decline in Celtic, the original PIE accusative *gʷṓm and genitive *gʷéws were made obsolete, which would have otherwise yielded Celtic *bām and *bous respectively. Cognate with Latin bōs.
Noun
*bāus f[1]
- cow
Declension
| Masculine/feminine consonant stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *bāus | *bowe | *bowes |
| vocative | *bāus | *bowe | *bowes |
| accusative | *bowam | *bowe | *bowams |
| genitive | *bowos | *bowou | *bowom |
| dative | *bowei | *bowobom | *bowobos |
| locative | *bowi | — | — |
| instrumental | *bowe? | *bowobim | *bowobis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *bʉ
- Breton: bu
- Middle Welsh: bu, buw
- ⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *bʉx
- Old Irish: bó
- Irish: bó
- Manx: booa
- Scottish Gaelic: bó, bò
Derived terms
- *boustom
- Old Irish: búas
- Celtiberian: boustom
- → Galician: busto
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN