Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/truxsos

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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/truxsos

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed words 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 r-metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *turḱ-s-os, suffixed s-stem of *twerḱ- (“to cut off”).[1]

Noun

*truxsos m

1. a cut off piece, broken off piece

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*truxsos	*truxsou	*truxsoi
vocative	*truxse	*truxsou	*truxsūs
accusative	*truxsom	*truxsou	*truxsūs
genitive	*truxsī	*truxsous	*truxsom
dative	*truxsūi	*truxsobom	*truxsobos
instrumental	*truxsū	*truxsobim	*truxsobis

Descendants

• Brythonic:
  • Old Breton: truch
    • Breton: trouc'h, troc'h (“a cut”)
  • Old Cornish: trech (“a cut off piece”)
    • Cornish: trogh (“broken”)
  • Middle Welsh: trwch (“broken, wounded”)
• *truxs (s-stem)
  • Old Irish: trú (“doomed person”)
    • Middle Irish: trú

References

1. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157