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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kīkos

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

Alternative forms
  • *kīkā (feminine ā-stem)

Etymology

Assumed to be of expressive/imitative origin, common for female body parts[1] (cf. unrelated English tit, German Zitze (“teat”)).

The masculine gender of the Brythonic forms and potential evidence of the Old Irish daughter form being a neuter s-stem leads Matasović (2009) to propose possibly reconstructing the Proto-Celtic form as an s-stem neuter.

Noun

*kīkos n[1]

  1. breast

Declension
Neuter s-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kīkos *kīkese? *kīkesa
vocative *kīkos *kīkese? *kīkesa
accusative *kīkos *kīkese? *kīkesa
genitive *kīkesos *kīkesous? *kīkesom
dative *kīkesē *kīkesbom *kīkesbos
locative *kīkesi *? *?
instrumental *kīkesē *kīkesbim *kīkesbis

Derived terms
  • Proto-Brythonic: *kig (“meat”)
    • Breton: kig m
    • Old Cornish: cic
    • Middle Welsh: kic
      • Welsh: cig m (“meat”)
  • Old Irish: cích (“breast”)

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 204
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