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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/aglos
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵʰ- (“cow”), see also Avestan 𐬀𐬰𐬍 (azī), Old Armenian եզն (ezn), Old Irish ag (“cow”).[1] Matasovic compares *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”), though with a semantic gap.
Declension
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *aglos | *aglou | *agloi |
| vocative | *agle | *aglou | *aglūs |
| accusative | *aglom | *aglou | *agloms |
| genitive | *aglī | *aglous | *aglom |
| dative | *aglūi | *aglobom | *aglobos |
| locative | *aglei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *aglū | *aglobim | *aglūis |
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 7, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 7
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*aglo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 26-27
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