Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gdonyos

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 *dʰǵʰom-yo-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).[1]

Noun

*gdonyos m

person

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gdonyos	*gdonyou	*gdonyoi
vocative	*gdonye	*gdonyou	*gdonyūs
accusative	*gdonyom	*gdonyou	*gdonyoms
genitive	*gdonyī	*gdonyous	*gdonyom
dative	*gdonyūi	*gdonyobom	*gdonyobos
locative	*gdonyei	*?	*?
instrumental	*gdonyū	*gdonyobim	*gdonyūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *dün
- Old Breton: don, den
  - Middle Breton: den
    - Breton: den
- Old Cornish: den
  - Cornish: den
- Middle Welsh: dyn
  - Welsh: dyn
Old Irish: duine
- Middle Irish: duine
  - Irish: duine
  - Manx: dooinney
  - Scottish Gaelic: duine
Gaulish: xtonion (gdonios - nom.sing.)[2]

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gdonyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 156
Gaulish Vocabulary

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[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gdonyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 156

[2] Gaulish Vocabulary