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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wimmonā

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

Unknown; most likely from a non-IE substrate language, or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weyb- (“to wind around”).[1] Attested only in the Insular Celtic languages, unless the Iberian Romance words for “asphodel” are derived from a Celtic language.

Reconstructed by Hamp as *wismon-.[2][3]

Noun

*wimmonā f[4]

  1. seaweed

Declension
Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wimmonā *wimmonai *wimmonās
vocative *wimmonā *wimmonai *wimmonās
accusative *wimmonam *wimmonai *wimmonāms
genitive *wimmonās *wimmonous *wimmonom
dative *wimmonāi *wimmonābom *wimmonābos
locative *wimmonai *? *?
instrumental *? *wimmonābim *wimmonābis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *gwɨmon
    • Old Breton: goumon
      • Middle Breton: gwemon
        • → Middle French: goumon
    • Welsh: gwymon
  • Middle Irish: femain, femmain, femm
  • >? Proto-Ibero-Romance: *gamōnem (“asphodel”)

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “u̯eip-, u̯eib-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1132
  2. Hamp, Eric P. (1978–80) “Notulae etymologicae cymricae”, in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, volume 28, pages 213–17
  3. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 158
  4. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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