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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/glendos
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Hypothetically from Proto-Indo-European *glendos (“shore”); however, the only cognate is Proto-Germanic *klintaz (whence Icelandic klettur, Middle Low German klint), so it may be a borrowing from a non-Indo-European substrate language.
Noun
*glendos n[1]
- valley
Inflection
| Neuter s-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *glendos | *glendese? | *glendesa |
| vocative | *glendos | *glendese? | *glendesa |
| accusative | *glendos | *glendese? | *glendesa |
| genitive | *glendesos | *glendesous? | *glendesom |
| dative | *glendesē | *glendesbom | *glendesbos |
| locative | *glendesi | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *glendesē | *glendesbim | *glendesbis |
Descendants
- Brythonic: *glɨnn
- Middle Breton: glenn
- Breton: glen
- Middle Welsh: glynn
- Welsh: glyn
- Middle Breton: glenn
- Old Irish: glenn
- Irish: gleann
- Manx: glion
- Scottish Gaelic: gleann
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 160