Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wegnos

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

From Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰnos, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to go, transport”).

Noun

*wegnos m^[1]

wagon, cart

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*wegnos	*wegnou	*wegnoi
vocative	*wegne	*wegnou	*wegnoi
accusative	*wegnom	*wegnou	*wegnoms
genitive	*wegnī	*wegnous	*wegnom
dative	*wegnūi	*wegnobom	*wegnobos
locative	*wegnei	*?	*?
instrumental	*wegnū	*wegnobim	*wegnūis

Derived terms

*wegnyā

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *gweɨn
- Welsh: gwain
Old Irish: fén^[2]
- Irish: féan

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wegno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 408
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[Matasovic-1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wegno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 408

[DIL-2] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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