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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kurmi
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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
Uncertain; possibly cognate with Latin cremor (“thick juice made by boiling grain”), Sanskrit करम्भ (karambha, “barley porridge, soup, mixture”), Russian корм (korm, “food”),[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kremH- (“to burn”).[2][3]
Declension
| Neuter i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *kormi | *kormī | *kormyā |
| vocative | *kormi | *kormī | *kormyā |
| accusative | *kormi | *kormī | *kormyā |
| genitive | *kormois | *kormois | *kormyom |
| dative | *kormei | *kormibom | *kormibos |
| locative | *kormei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *kormī | *kormibim | *kormibis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *kurβ̃
- Middle Breton: coref
- Breton: korev
- Old Cornish: coruf
- Middle Cornish: coref
- Cornish: korev
- Middle Cornish: coref
- Old Welsh: curum
- Middle Welsh: cwrwf
- Welsh: cwrw
- Middle Welsh: cwrwf
- Proto-Brythonic: *kürβ̃ėsi
- Middle Breton: coref
- Old Irish: cuirm
- Gaulish: curmi, curmí, κόρμα (kórma), κούρμι (koúrmi)
- ⇒ *kurmēsyā (+ *-ēsyā)
- Latin: cervēsia, cervēsa; cerevēsia, cervī̆sia, cerevī̆sia, cervī̆sa, cerevī̆sa, cervī̆ssa, cerbī̆sia (see there for further descendants)
References
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 263
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), “3. ker(ə)-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 571-572
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kormi”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217
- Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “curmi”, 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 133: “*curmi”
- Koch, John (2004), “*kurmen-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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