Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sūdyā

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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

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Etymology

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Oft-considered cognates include Lithuanian súodžiai, Proto-Slavic *saďa, and most controversially Proto-Germanic *sōtą, all meaning "soot". For these three, Matasović reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *seh₃wd- as their common root, independent of *sed- (to sit) from which the Germanic word was traditionally derived.[1] The Celtic would require a metathesis of *-h₃w- to *-uh₃- in this root.

The Germanic word in particular requires what Kroonen calls "Mahlow's law", where long vowels in open syllables caused a following -w- to be lost in Germanic, for Matasović's etymology to work. Kroonen does not deal with Proto-Germanic *sōtą in his dictionary.

Noun

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*sūdyā f

  1. soot

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *sūdyā *sūdyai *sūdyās
vocative *sūdyā *sūdyai *sūdyās
accusative *sūdyam *sūdyai *sūdyāms
genitive *sūdyās *sūdyous *sūdyom
dative *sūdyāi *sūdyābom *sūdyābos
locative *sūdyai *? *?
instrumental *? *sūdyābim *sūdyābis

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 358-359
  2. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 125