Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sounos

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 *supnós.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsow.nos/

Noun

*sounos m[1]

sleep

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sounos	*sounou	*sounoi
vocative	*soune	*sounou	*sounūs
accusative	*sounom	*sounou	*sounoms
genitive	*sounī	*sounous	*sounom
dative	*sounūi	*sounobom	*sounobos
locative	*sounei	*?	*?
instrumental	*sounū	*sounobim	*sounūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *hʉn
- Middle Breton: hun
- Old Cornish: hun
  - Middle Cornish: hun
- Middle Welsh: hun
  - Welsh: hun
Old Irish: súan
- Irish: suan
- Scottish Gaelic: suain
Gaulish: *sounos[2]
- ⇒ Gaulish: *Kissōnyos (“Gaulish deity associated with Mercury”)
  - → Latin: Cissonius

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*sowno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 351
Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “sounos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 279

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*sowno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 351

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “sounos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 279