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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/blātus

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 earlier *bʰléh₃tus ~ *bʰl̥h₃téw-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-.

Noun

*blātus m[1]

  1. flower, blossom

Inflection
Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *blātus *blātū *blātowes
vocative *blātu *blātū *blātūs
accusative *blātum *blātū *blātums
genitive *blātous *blātous *blātowom
dative *blātou *blātubom *blātubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *blātū *blātubim *blātubis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic: *blọd
    • Old Breton: bloduu
      • Middle Breton: bleuzff
    • Old Cornish: blodon
    • Middle Welsh: blawt
  • Gaulish: *blātōnā, blātunā, Blātumagos
    • → Medieval Latin: bladona
      • Italian: belladonna (through folk etymological reanalysis)
  • Old Irish: bláth[2]

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*blātu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 67/68
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bláth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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