Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/-yūs
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Proto-Celtic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *-yōs.
Suffix
[edit]*-yūs[1]
- Forms comparative forms of adjectives.
Usage notes
[edit]- No gender/number/case inflection of comparative adjectives is attested in Celtic. This suffix lost all productivity in Brythonic but a few remnants remain (such as Welsh hŷn < *senyūs).
- Some adjectives that used a Caland system suffix in the positive that was absent in the other degrees of comparison did not use *-yūs. Instead they used *-(a)is to form the comparative.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jasanoff, Jay (1991) “The origin of the Celtic comparative type OIr. tressa, MW trech ‘stronger’”, in Die Sprache, volume 34, pages 171-189