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Reconstruction:Gaulish/abalo-

This Gaulish 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.

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl. Akin to Old Irish ubull (Irish úll), Old English æppel (English apple) and Old Church Slavonic аблъко (ablŭko), all carrying the same meaning.[1]

Noun

abalo- n

  1. apple
    • 449, “Endlicher's Glossary”, in Alderik H. Blom, editor, Études celtiques, volume 37 (in Latin), published 2011, pages 161 of 159–181, line 10:
      Avallo. Poma
      avallo is an apple.

Declension
    declension of Gaulish/abalo- (Transalpine)
Case Singular Plural
Nominative abalon abaloi
Vocative abale abaloi
Accusative abalon abalōs1, abalūs2
Genitive abali abalon
Dative abalū abalobo
Instrumental abalū abaluis1, abalūs2
Locative abalei1, abalē2 abalois
1 early forms, 2 late forms

Derived terms[2]
  • Latin: *acer-abulus (literally “maple-apple”) (for attested acterabulus and acerafulus)[3]
  • Latin: Avalono
    • French: Ollon
  • Latin: Aulonum, Olonum
    • Old French: Oluns, Oulon, Olun, Olons
      • Middle French: Oullon
        • French: Ollon

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*abalo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23
  2. Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “abalo-, aballo-”, 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 29
  3. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 264
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