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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/krīkʷā

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“post”), though this would yield an unexpected lengthened earlier form of *krēkʷ-. Or, from *krey- (“to sift, separate”).[1]

Noun

*krīkʷā f[2]

  1. trench, furrow, boundary

Declension
Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *krīkʷā *krīkʷai *krīkʷās
vocative *krīkʷā *krīkʷai *krīkʷās
accusative *krīkʷam *krīkʷai *krīkʷāms
genitive *krīkʷās *krīkʷous *krīkʷom
dative *krīkʷāi *krīkʷābom *krīkʷābos
locative *krīkʷai *? *?
instrumental *? *krīkʷābim *krīkʷābis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Middle Breton: crib (“comb”)
    • Cornish: cryb
    • Old Welsh: crip
      • Middle Welsh: crib
        • Welsh: crib (“comb”)
  • Old Irish: crích

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “crìoch”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 107
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*krīkʷā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 224
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