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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/brāgants

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 an element *brāg- +‎ *-ants (body part suffix), the root apparently from *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”) but with an unidentified suffix *-gʰ-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat, neck”) (see English craw).[1][2] Compare also Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”), similarly thought to derive from *gʷerh₃-g(ʰ)-, though its relationship to the words for “throat” is less clear.

Noun

*brāgants m[2]

  1. neck, throat

Declension
Masculine/feminine consonant stem
singular dual plural
nominative *brāgants *brāgante *brāgantes
vocative *brāgants *brāgante *brāgantes
accusative *brāgantam *brāgante *brāgantams
genitive *brāgantos *brāgantou *brāgantom
dative *brāgantei *brāgantobom *brāgantobos
locative *brāganti — —
instrumental *brāgante? *brāgantobim *brāgantobis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Old Breton: brehant
    • Old Cornish: briansen, bryansenn
    • Welsh: breuant
  • Old Irish: bráge
    • Middle Irish: brága
      • Irish: brá (“captive, hostage”), bráid (“neck, throat”)
      • Scottish Gaelic: bràigh (“captive, hostage”)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kragan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 300
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brāgant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 72-73
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