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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sounos
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *supnós.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈsow.nos/
Noun
*sounos m[1]
- sleep
Inflection
Masculine o-stem | |||
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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
- ⇒ Gaulish: *Kissōnyos (“Gaulish deity associated with Mercury”)
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