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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mennos
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
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Noun
*mennos m[1]
- young goat; kid
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *mennos | *mennou | *mennoi |
| vocative | *menne | *mennou | *mennūs |
| accusative | *mennom | *mennou | *mennoms |
| genitive | *mennī | *mennous | *mennom |
| dative | *mennūi | *mennobom | *mennobos |
| locative | *mennei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *mennū | *mennobim | *mennūis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Breton: menn
- Old Cornish: min
- Cornish: mynn
- Middle Welsh: myn
- Welsh: myn
- Middle Irish: menn
- Scottish Gaelic: meann
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*menno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 266