Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gigurannos

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

Noun

*gigurannos m[1]

  1. barnacle goose

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *gigurannos *gigurannou *gigurannoi
vocative *giguranne *gigurannou *gigurannoi
accusative *gigurannom *gigurannou *gigurannons
genitive *gigurannī *gigurannous *gigurannom
dative *gigurannūi *gigurannobom *gigurannobos
locative *gigurannei *? *?
instrumental *gigurannū *gigurannobim *gigurannūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *guɨrann
    • Old Breton: goirann
    • Middle Welsh: gwyran
      • Welsh: gwyran
  • Old Irish: giugrann, gigrann, giugran (St. Gall spellings)

References

  1. ^ Jørgensen, Anders Richardt (2024), “A bird name suffix ✶-anno- in Celtic and Gallo-Romance”, in Guus Kroonen, editor, Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, Results (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs), volume 375, Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pages 139–140