Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/nowe

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *ne-we, from *ne (not) +‎ *-wē (or), literally or not.[1][2] Compare Latin nēve, which was formed identically.

Conjunction[edit]

*nowe

  1. or

Descendants[edit]

  • Proto-Brythonic: *now
  • Old Irish: , no,

References[edit]

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 885, page 551
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 404