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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wimonā

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.

Noun

*wimonā f[2]

  1. seaweed

Declension
Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *wimonā *wimonai *wimonās
vocative *wimonā *wimonai *wimonās
accusative *wimonam *wimonai *wimonāms
genitive *wimonās *wimonous *wimonom
dative *wimonāi *wimonābom *wimonābos
locative *wimonai *? *?
instrumental *? *wimonābim *wimonābis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *gwɨmon
    • Old Breton: goumon
      • Middle Breton: gwemon
        • → Middle French: goumon
    • Welsh: gwymon
  • Middle Irish: femain, femmain, femm

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