Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/glanos

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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/glanos

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

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃-nó-s, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”)[1], though semantically difficult to explain[2].

Adjective

*glanos

1. clean
2. clear

Inflection

O/ā-stem
masculine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glanos	*glanou	*glanoi
vocative	*glane	*glanou	*glanūs
accusative	*glanom	*glanou	*glanoms
genitive	*glanī	*glanous	*glanom
dative	*glanūi	*glanobom	*glanobos
instrumental	*glanū	*glanobim	*glanobis
feminine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glanā	*glanai	*glanās
vocative	*glanā	*glanai	*glanās
accusative	*glanam	*glanai	*glanams
genitive	*glanās	*glanous	*glanom
dative	*glanai	*glanābom	*glanābos
instrumental	*?	*glanābim	*glanābis
neuter	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glanom	*glanou	*glanā
vocative	*glanom	*glanou	*glanā
accusative	*glanom	*glanou	*glanā
genitive	*glanī	*glanous	*glanom
dative	*glanūi	*glanobom	*glanobos
instrumental	*glanū	*glanobim	*glanobis

Descendants

• Brythonic: *glan
  • Old Breton: glan
    • Middle Breton: glan
      • Breton: glan
  • Cornish: glan
  • Middle Welsh: glan
    • Welsh: glân
• Old Irish: glan
  • Irish: glan
  • Scottish Gaelic: glan
• Gaulish: Glanis (hydronym), (Matrebo) Glaneikabo (theonym)
  • → French: Gland (placename)

References

1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi
2. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*glano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 160

• Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France, vol. 1 : Formations préceltiques, celtiques, romanes, Librairie Droz, Genève, 1990, p. 704