Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mendos

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

Matasović tries to relate this to Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”), whence also Old Armenian մանր (manr), but the suffixation to yield the Celtic forms would be unclear.[1]

Noun

*mendos m

  1. young goat; kid

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *mendos *mendou *mendoi
vocative *mende *mendou *mendoi
accusative *mendom *mendou *mendons
genitive *mendī *mendous *mendom
dative *mendūi *mendobom *mendobos
locative *mendei *? *?
instrumental *mendū *mendobim *mendūis

Reconstruction notes

Due to apparently related areal words like *mandus (“pony”) and Romanian mânz (“foal”), -nd- and not -nn- is now typically reconstructed.

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *mɨnn
  • Old Irish: mend

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*menno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 266
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