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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸlitawī
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pl̥th₂éwih₂ (“country”) from *pléth₂us (“flat, broad”).
Noun
*ɸlitawī f[1]
- country, earth
Declension
Feminine ī/yā-stem | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *ɸlitawī | *ɸlitawī | *ɸlitawyās |
vocative | *ɸlitawī | *ɸlitawī | *ɸlitawyās |
accusative | *ɸlitawīm | *ɸlitawī | *ɸlitawīms |
genitive | *ɸlitawyās | *ɸlitawyous | *ɸlitawyom |
dative | *ɸlitawyai | *ɸlitawyābom | *ɸlitawyābos |
locative | *? | *? | *? |
instrumental | *? | *ɸlitawyābim | *ɸlitawyābis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *Llɨdaw (“mainland Europe; Brittany”)
- Old Breton: Letau
- Breton: Ledav
- → French: Létavie
- Cornish: Lesow
- Old Welsh: Litau
- Welsh: Llydaw
- → Old English: *Lidwīc
- Old English: Lidwīccas, Lidwīcingas (“Bretons”)
- Old Breton: Letau
- Gaulish: *litaui[2]
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*flitano-, *flitawī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 135
- Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “litaui”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 204