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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gurmos
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Unknown; presumably borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate source since there are no cognates outside Celtic.[1]
Adjective
*gurmos
- dun, dark, blue
Inflection
| O/ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *gurmos | *gurmou | *gurmoi |
| vocative | *gurme | *gurmou | *gurmūs |
| accusative | *gurmom | *gurmou | *gurmoms |
| genitive | *gurmī | *gurmous | *gurmom |
| dative | *gurmūi | *gurmobom | *gurmobos |
| instrumental | *gurmū | *gurmobim | *gurmobis |
| feminine | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *gurmā | *gurmai | *gurmās |
| vocative | *gurmā | *gurmai | *gurmās |
| accusative | *gurmam | *gurmai | *gurmams |
| genitive | *gurmās | *gurmous | *gurmom |
| dative | *gurmai | *gurmābom | *gurmābos |
| instrumental | *? | *gurmābim | *gurmābis |
| neuter | singular | dual | plural |
| nominative | *gurmom | *gurmou | *gurmā |
| vocative | *gurmom | *gurmou | *gurmā |
| accusative | *gurmom | *gurmou | *gurmā |
| genitive | *gurmī | *gurmous | *gurmom |
| dative | *gurmūi | *gurmobom | *gurmobos |
| instrumental | *gurmū | *gurmobim | *gurmobis |
Descendants
- Brythonic: *gurm
- Old Breton: Uurm-haelon (literally “with dark brows”)
- Cornish: gorm
- Welsh: gwrm
- Middle Irish: gorm
- Irish: gorm
- Manx: gorrym
- Scottish Gaelic: gorm
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 169
See also
| *bānos, *loukos, *windos | *ɸlētos | *dubus |
| *roudos; *dergos | *dusnos | *blāwos, *melinos |
| *glastos | ||
| *gurmos | ||