Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/glanis

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

Nominalization of *glanos (“clear”).[1]

Noun

*glanis f[2]

  1. clearness
  2. something clear or transparent

Inflection

Masculine/feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *glanis *glanī *glanīs
vocative *glani *glanī *glanīs
accusative *glanim *glanī *glanins
genitive *glaneis *glanyow *glanyom
dative *glanei *glanibom *glanibos
locative *glanei *? *?
instrumental *glanī *glanibim *glanibis

Descendants

  • ⇒ Proto-Brythonic: *glėn (< thematicized *glanyos)
    • Old Welsh: gleiniou pl
      • Middle Welsh: glein (“pearl, bead, gem”)
  • Middle Irish: glain (“crystal, glass”)
  • Gaulish: *glanis
    • → Latin: Glanis
  • Celtiberian: *glanis
    • → Ancient Greek: Γλάνις (Glánis, name of a river in Spain)

References

  1. ^ Weiss, Michael (2012) “Interesting i-stems in Irish”, in Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau and Michael Weiss, editors, Multi Nominis Grammaticus: Studies in Classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor, New York: Beech Stave Press, page 347
  2. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “glano-”, 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 180
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