Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷerstā

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

Derived from a root *kʷres-, seen also in *kʷresnom and more distantly, Proto-West Germanic *hursti. The traditional ascription to Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”) is rejected by Van Sluis and Stifter for semantic reasons.

Noun

*kʷerstā f[1]

  1. hedge, bush

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kʷerstā *kʷerstai *kʷerstās
vocative *kʷerstā *kʷerstai *kʷerstās
accusative *kʷerstam *kʷerstai *kʷerstāns
genitive *kʷerstās *kʷerstous *kʷerstom
dative *kʷerstāi *kʷerstābom *kʷerstābos
locative *kʷerstai *? *?
instrumental *? *kʷerstābim *kʷerstābis

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *perθ
    • Cornish: perth, Penberth (toponym)
    • Middle Welsh: perth
    • Pictish:
      • → English: Perth (toponym)
  • Middle Irish: ceirt (name of an Ogam letter)

References

  1. ^ Hayden, Deborah; Stifter, David (2022), “Ogam and Trees – OG(H)AM”, in Megan Kasten, editor, OG(H)AM – Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st‎[1]
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kʷerxt-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 178
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