Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wesrakos

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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wesrakos

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 *wósr̥ (“spring (season)”). Cognate with Latin ver, Ancient Greek ἔαρ (éar) and Old Church Slavonic весна (vesna).

Noun

*wesrakos m[1]

1. spring

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*wesrakos	*wesrakou	*wesrakoi
vocative	*wesrake	*wesrakou	*wesrakūs
accusative	*wesrakom	*wesrakou	*wesrakoms
genitive	*wesrakī	*wesrakous	*wesrakom
dative	*wesrakūi	*wesrakobom	*wesrakobos
locative	*wesrakei	*?	*?
instrumental	*wesrakū	*wesrakobim	*wesrakūis

Descendants

• Old Irish: errach
  • Irish: earrach
  • Scottish Gaelic: earrach
  • Manx: arragh

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*wesr-/*wesn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 417: “*wesrako-”

See also

Seasons in Proto-Celtic · *amsterās (layout · text) · category
*wesrakos (“spring”)	*samos (“summer”)	*wogamur (“autumn”)	*gyemos (“winter”)