Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dristis

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; the only similar-looking word known is Ancient Greek δρίος (dríos, “thicket”).^[1]

Noun

*dristis f

briar, bramble, thornbush

Inflection

Masculine/feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dristis	*dristī	*dristīs
vocative	*dristi	*dristī	*dristīs
accusative	*dristim	*dristī	*dristins
genitive	*dristeis	*dristyow	*dristyom
dative	*dristei	*dristibom	*dristibos
locative	*dristei	*?	*?
instrumental	*dristī	*dristibim	*dristibis

Alternative reconstructions

*drissis^[2]

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *drɨs
- Breton: drez
- Old Cornish: dreis
- Old Welsh: drissi pl
  - Middle Welsh: drysi, dryssi
    - Welsh: drysi
Old Irish: dris
- Irish: dris
- Manx: dress
- Scottish Gaelic: dris

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*dristi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 105
^ 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 342

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*dristi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 105

[2] 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 342

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