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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/knawī

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

Possibly connected to *knāyeti (“to bite, chew”).[1]

Noun

*knawī f[1]

  1. fleece

Declension
Feminine ī/yā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *knawī *knawī *knawyās
vocative *knawī *knawī *knawyās
accusative *knawīm *knawī *knawīms
genitive *knawyās *knawyous *knawyom
dative *knawyai *knawyābom *knawyābos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *? *knawyābim *knawyābis

Descendants
  • Brythonic:
    • Middle Breton: kneau, cnev
    • Cornish: kneu
    • Middle Welsh: cnaif
    • Middle Welsh: cnu, cnuf (<*knowos)
  • Goidelic:
    • Old Irish: cnaí[2]

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*knawī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 211
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cnaí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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