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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/snāmus
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Proto-Celtic
Alternative reconstructions
- *snāmos[1]
Etymology
From *snā- + *-mus (verbal noun ending for verbs eventually becoming hiatus verbs in Old Irish).
Noun
*snāmus m
- swimming
Inflection
The o-stem declension assigned by Matasović is erroneous; there is no evidence of such inflection in any early Celtic language.
| Masculine/feminine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *snāmus | *snāmū | *snāmowes |
| vocative | *snāmu | *snāmū | *snāmūs |
| accusative | *snāmum | *snāmū | *snāmums |
| genitive | *snāmous | *snāmous | *snāmowom |
| dative | *snāmou | *snāmubom | *snāmubos |
| locative | *? | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *snāmū | *snāmubim | *snāmubis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *hnọβ̃
- Middle Welsh: nawf
- ⇒ Welsh: nofio
- Middle Breton: neuf
- Breton: neuñ
- Middle Welsh: nawf
- Old Irish: snám
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*snāmo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 348