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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/yextis
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to say”).
Noun
*yextis f[1]
- language, speech
Declension
| Masculine/feminine i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *yextis | *yextī | *yextīs |
| vocative | *yexti | *yextī | *yextīs |
| accusative | *yextim | *yextī | *yextims |
| genitive | *yexteis | *yextyow | *yextyom |
| dative | *yextei | *yextibom | *yextibos |
| locative | *yextei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *yextī | *yextibim | *yextibis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *jeiθ
- Breton: yezh
- Cornish: yeth
- Middle Welsh: ieith
- Welsh: iaith
- Old Irish: icht (“race, people, tribe”)
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*yextV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 435