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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bostā

This Proto-Celtic 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.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷosdeh₂, from *gʷésdos (“branch”)[1]. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *kwastō (compare Old English cwist (“branch”), Old High German questa (“tuft”), Old Norse kvistr (“twig”)), Proto-Slavic *gvozdь (compare Czech hvozd (“forest”), Slovene gòzd (“forest”), Russian гвоздь (gvozdʹ, “nail”)), Proto-Albanian *gazda (compare Albanian gjeth (“leaf”)).

Noun

*bostā f

  1. palm, fist

Declension
Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *bostā *bostai *bostās
vocative *bostā *bostai *bostās
accusative *bostam *bostai *bostāms
genitive *bostās *bostous *bostom
dative *bostāi *bostābom *bostābos
locative *bostai *? *?
instrumental *? *bostābim *bostābis

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *bos
    • Middle Breton: boz
    • Old Welsh: bos
  • Old Irish: bas
  • Gaulish: *bostyā
    • → Medieval Latin: bostia (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 161
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