Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wetā

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 *weyh₁- (“to wither”).

Noun

*wetā f[1]

stream, swamp

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*wetā	*wetai	*wetās
vocative	*wetā	*wetai	*wetās
accusative	*wetam	*wetai	*wetāms
genitive	*wetās	*wetous	*wetom
dative	*wetāi	*wetābom	*wetābos
locative	*wetai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*wetābim	*wetābis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: (<*wettā)
- Old Breton: goed
  - Middle Breton: goaz, guez
    - Breton: gwazh
- Old Cornish: guid
  - Middle Cornish: gwyth, goth
- Middle Welsh: gwyth
  - Welsh: gŵyth
Middle Irish: féith

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*wet(t)ā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419

[EDPC-1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*wet(t)ā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419