Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dū

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

Alternative forms

*do

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *de, *do.[1]

Preposition

*dū

to, towards
for

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *di
- Breton: da
- Old Welsh: di
  - Middle Welsh: y
    - Welsh: i
Old Irish: do
- Irish: do
- Scottish Gaelic: do

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*do”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 102

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*do”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 102