Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mailos

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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mailos

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

Uncertain. A connection with Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“cut”) has been made, but is not certain.[1] Also compare Proto-Slavic *mělъkъ (“shallow, narrow”), Irish maoth (“tender”).[2]

Adjective

*mailos

1. bald
2. bare

Declension

O/ā-stem
masculine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mailos	*mailou	*mailoi
vocative	*maile	*mailou	*mailūs
accusative	*mailom	*mailou	*mailoms
genitive	*mailī	*mailous	*mailom
dative	*mailūi	*mailobom	*mailobos
instrumental	*mailū	*mailobim	*mailobis
feminine	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mailā	*mailai	*mailās
vocative	*mailā	*mailai	*mailās
accusative	*mailam	*mailai	*mailams
genitive	*mailās	*mailous	*mailom
dative	*mailai	*mailābom	*mailābos
instrumental	*?	*mailābim	*mailābis
neuter	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mailom	*mailou	*mailā
vocative	*mailom	*mailou	*mailā
accusative	*mailom	*mailou	*mailā
genitive	*mailī	*mailous	*mailom
dative	*mailūi	*mailobom	*mailobos
instrumental	*mailū	*mailobim	*mailobis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *moɨl
  • Middle Breton: moel
    • Breton: moal
  • Cornish: môl
  • Old Welsh: mail
    • Middle Welsh: moel
      • Welsh: moel
• Old Irish: máel
  • Irish: maol, maoil
  • Manx: meayl
  • Scottish Gaelic: maol
• ⇒ Primitive Irish: ᚋᚐᚔᚂᚐᚌᚅᚔ (mailagni)

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*maylo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 260
2. MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “maol”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN