Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/woltos

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 Proto-Indo-European *woltos (“hair”).

Noun

*woltos m

hair (of the head)

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*woltos	*woltou	*woltoi
vocative	*wolte	*woltou	*woltūs
accusative	*woltom	*woltou	*woltūs
genitive	*woltī	*woltous	*woltom
dative	*woltūi	*woltobom	*woltobos
instrumental	*woltū	*woltobim	*woltobis

Derived terms

*woltākos

Descendants

Brythonic: *gwolt
- Old Breton: guolt
- Old Cornish: gols
  - Cornish: gols
- Welsh: gwallt
Old Irish: folt
- Irish: folt
- Manx: folt
- Scottish Gaelic: falt
Gaulish: uolto-, *woltos