Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dēwos

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 Proto-Indo-European *deywós.[1]

Noun

*dēwos m

god, deity
day

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dēwos	*dēwou	*dēwoi
vocative	*dēwe	*dēwou	*dēwūs
accusative	*dēwom	*dēwou	*dēwoms
genitive	*dēwī	*dēwous	*dēwom
dative	*dēwūi	*dēwobom	*dēwobos
locative	*dēwei	*?	*?
instrumental	*dēwū	*dēwobim	*dēwūis

Descendants

Brythonic: *duɨw
- Old Breton: *doi (in compound)
  - Middle Breton: doe
    - Breton: doue
- Old Cornish: duy
  - Middle Cornish: dew, deu
    - Cornish: dew
- Old Welsh: duiu
  - Middle Welsh: duw
    - Welsh: duw
Hispano-Celtic:
- Celtiberian: Teiuoreikis, Deobriga
- → Galician: Deva (river name)
Gaulish: Deuognata, teuoxtonio-, Dēuos, Dēwos, Dēvona
Old Irish: día
- Irish: dia, Dia, Dé
- Manx: jee
- Scottish Gaelic: dia

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 207

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[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 207