Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nizdos

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

From Proto-Indo-European *nisdós.

Noun

*nizdos m

nest

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nisdos	*nisdou	*nisdoi
vocative	*nisde	*nisdou	*nisdūs
accusative	*nisdom	*nisdou	*nisdoms
genitive	*nisdī	*nisdous	*nisdom
dative	*nisdūi	*nisdobom	*nisdobos
instrumental	*nisdū	*nisdobim	*nisdobis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *nɨθ
- Middle Breton: nez
  - Breton: neizh, nezh
- Old Cornish: neid
  - Middle Cornish: nyth
    - Cornish: neyth
- Middle Welsh: nyth
  - Welsh: nyth
Old Irish: net
- Irish: nead
- Scottish Gaelic: nead
- Manx: edd (“nest”)

References

Celtic Lexicon - University of Wales