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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nemetom
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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
From Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute”).[1]
Inflection
| Neuter o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *nemētom | *nemētou | *nemētā |
| vocative | *nemētom | *nemētou | *nemētā |
| accusative | *nemētom | *nemētou | *nemētā |
| genitive | *nemētī | *nemētous | *nemētom |
| dative | *nemētūi | *nemētobom | *nemētobos |
| locative | *nemētei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *nemētū | *nemētobim | *nemētūis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *neβ̃ed
- Old Breton: -nimet
- Old Welsh: -nivet
- Gaulish: νεμητον
- → Latin: Nemetum
- ⇒ Latin: Augustonemetum (“Clermont-Ferrand”)
- ⇒ Latin: Nemetobriga
- ⇒ Latin: Nemetodurum
- French: Nanterre
- → Latin: Nemetum
- Old Irish: nemed, neimed
- Irish: neimheadh
- → Galician: Nendos
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*nemeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 288
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