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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bētom
Proto-Celtic
Alternative forms
- *biyatom
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃tom, from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”). The by-form *biyatom is from a different formation from the same root.[1]
Noun
*bētom n
- food
Inflection
Neuter o-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *bētom | *bētou | *bētā |
vocative | *bētom | *bētou | *bētā |
accusative | *bētom | *bētou | *bētā |
genitive | *bētī | *bētous | *bētom |
dative | *bētūi | *bētobom | *bētobos |
locative | *bētei | *? | *? |
instrumental | *bētū | *bētobim | *bētūis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *buɨd
- Middle Breton: boet, bouet
- Breton: boued
- Old Cornish: buit
- Cornish: bos, boys
- Middle Welsh: bwyt
- Welsh: bwyd
- Middle Breton: boet, bouet
- Old Irish: bíad, bïad (from *biyatom)
- Irish: bia
- Manx: bee
- Scottish Gaelic: biadh
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*bēto-, *biyato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 64