Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/luxtus

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

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *lewǵ- (“to fracture, break”) (see Sanskrit रुजति (rujati)).[1] MacBain suggests *telh₂- (“to bear, undergo”), if the original form was *tlukto-, suggested by Old Welsh tluith.[2]

Noun

*luxtus m[3]

contents
people, crowd

Declension

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*luxtus	*luxtū	*luxtowes
vocative	*luxtu	*luxtū	*luxtūs
accusative	*luxtum	*luxtū	*luxtums
genitive	*luxtous	*luxtous	*luxtowom
dative	*luxtou	*luxtubom	*luxtubos
locative	*?	*?	*?
instrumental	*luxtū	*luxtubim	*luxtubis

Descendants

Brythonic:
- Old Breton: loit
- Old Cornish: leid
- Old Welsh: luidt, luith
  - Middle Welsh: luith
    - Middle Welsh: llwyth
Old Irish: lucht
- Irish: lucht
- Manx: lught
- Scottish Gaelic: luchd
Gaulish: luxtus

References

Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 686
MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “luchd”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 251

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 686

[2] MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “luchd”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

[3] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 251