Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wolsos

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

Noun

*wolsos m[1][2]

something wrong

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*wolsos	*wolsou	*wolsoi
vocative	*wolse	*wolsou	*wolsūs
accusative	*wolsom	*wolsou	*wolsoms
genitive	*wolsī	*wolsous	*wolsom
dative	*wolsūi	*wolsobom	*wolsobos
locative	*wolsei	*?	*?
instrumental	*wolsū	*wolsobim	*wolsūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Breton: goall
  - Breton: gwall
- Cornish: gwall
- Middle Welsh: gwall
  - Welsh: gwall
Gaulish: uolson (accusative singular)

Related terms

*welsos
*walsā
- Old Irish: fall (“neglect”), faill
  - Middle Irish: faill
    - Irish: faill

References

Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “uolson”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 327
Stifter, David (2023) “The rise of gemination in Celtic”, in Open Research Europe‎, volume 3, →DOI, page 24

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[1] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “uolson”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 327

[2] Stifter, David (2023) “The rise of gemination in Celtic”, in Open Research Europe‎, volume 3, →DOI, page 24