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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/koxsā
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-. Cognate with Latin coxa (“hip”), Old High German hahsa (“back of the knee”), and Sanskrit कक्ष (kákṣa, “armpit”).
Noun
*koxsā f
- leg, foot
Declension
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *koxsā | *koxsai | *koxsās |
| vocative | *koxsā | *koxsai | *koxsās |
| accusative | *koxsam | *koxsai | *koxsāms |
| genitive | *koxsās | *koxsous | *koxsom |
| dative | *koxsāi | *koxsābom | *koxsābos |
| locative | *koxsai | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *? | *koxsābim | *koxsābis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *koɨs
- Middle Welsh: coes
- Welsh: coes
- Middle Welsh: coes
- Old Irish: cos
- Irish: cos
- Manx: cass
- Scottish Gaelic: cas
Further reading
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*koxsā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 220