Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/trāgi

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

Often connected to *tregess (“foot”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, run”),[2] but Matasovic disputes this on semantic grounds.

Noun

*trāgi f[3]

low tide, beach

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic:
- Breton: tre, tre(c'h)
- Cornish: trig
- Middle Welsh: trei
  - Welsh: trai
Old Irish: tráig
- Irish: trá
- Manx: traaie
- Scottish Gaelic: tràigh

References

MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “traogh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1089
Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*tragi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 387

[1] MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “traogh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

[2] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1089

[Matasovic-3] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*tragi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 387