Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ɸletos

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 *pléth₂-os (“breadth”), from *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”).

Noun

*ɸletos n

1. breadth
2. side

Inflection

Neuter s-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ɸletos	*ɸletese?	*ɸletesa
vocative	*ɸletos	*ɸletese?	*ɸletesa
accusative	*ɸletos	*ɸletese?	*ɸletesa
genitive	*ɸletesos	*ɸletesous?	*ɸletesom
dative	*ɸletesē	*ɸletesbom	*ɸletesbos
locative	*ɸletesi	*?	*?
instrumental	*ɸletesē	*ɸletesbim	*ɸletesbis

Descendants

• Proto-Brythonic: *lled
  • Middle Breton: let, led (“large”), led (“greatness”)
    • Breton: led
  • Cornish: les
  • Middle Welsh: lled (“breadth, width, half”)
    • Welsh: lled
• Old Irish: leth (“side”)
  • Irish: leath
  • Manx: lieh
  • Scottish Gaelic: leth

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*letos”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 238-239