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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/salanos

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

Alternative forms
  • *salēnos (Brittonic)

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”).[1]

Noun

*salanos m[1]

  1. salt

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *salanos *salanou *salanoi
vocative *salane *salanou *salanūs
accusative *salanom *salanou *salanoms
genitive *salanī *salanous *salanom
dative *salanūi *salanobom *salanobos
locative *salanei *? *?
instrumental *salanū *salanobim *salanūis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *haluɨn
    • Middle Breton: halon
    • Old Cornish: haloin
    • Middle Welsh: halwyn, halaen, halen
  • Old Irish: salann

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*salano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 319
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