2013/01/01 by Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Linguistics and language evolution #Historical Studies of British Isles #Linguistic Variation and Morphology
paper · doi:10.1515/indo.2013.118.2013.259
openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The changes occurring in the Celtic word-field designating offspring are scrutinized and arranged into a somewhat revised relative chronology. The study shows, among other things, how the Celtiberian and the Gaulish outcome of the inherited term for ‘daughter’ may be traced back, together with their Irish cognates, to one and the same Proto-Celtic nom.sing. * dúɣatīr . Moreover, new evidence is adduced in support of the existence of Proto-Celtic * sunus ‘son’, a case already made by Prósper (Villar & Prósper 2005), Blažek (2011) and Sanz Aragonés et al. (2011). A syntagma * magu-o-s sunus designating the ‘servant (or foster-) son’ may even account for the coming into being of the new lexeme continued by Old Irish macc , Welsh mab etc. Last but not least, Celtiberian * duater-o-s and * genti-s ( t ?) o-s are identified as new kinship terms for one’s daughter’s son and, respectively, an unspecified descendant