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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wikantī

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 a dissimilated variant of Proto-Indo-European *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti.

Numeral
Proto-Celtic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : *wikantī

*wikantī[1][2]

  1. twenty

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *ʉgėnt
    • Old Breton: ucent
      • Middle Breton: uguent
    • Cornish: ugens
    • Old Welsh: uceint
  • Old Irish: fiche

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wikantī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 421
  2. Koch, John (2004) “*wikantī”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda‎, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 370
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