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Celtic ‘son’, ‘daughter’, other descendants, and *sunus in Early Celtic

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Published/Copyright: December 18, 2013
Indogermanische Forschungen
From the journal Volume 118 Issue 2013

Abstract

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

Keywords : Celtic; Gaulish; Celtiberian; kinship terms; lexicon; personal names; Third Botorrita Bronze; Este; Soria
Online erschienen: 2013-12-18
Erschienen im Druck: 2013-12

© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/indo.2013.118.2013.259
Keywords for this article
Celtic; Gaulish; Celtiberian; kinship terms; lexicon; personal names; Third Botorrita Bronze; Este; Soria

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Inhalt
  3. Once again on the Hieroglyphic Luwian sign *19 〈á〉
  4. Syntax und Wortarten der Lokalpartikeln im Ṛgveda
  5. Uridg. *dh(e)ǵhōm ‚Erde‘ und *ǵʰ(e)i̯ōm ‚Winter
  6. Latin paenitet me, miseret me, pudet me and active clause alignment in Proto-Indo-European
  7. A note on the Mycenaean thematic genitive ending in month names
  8. Nevotan niptiyan
  9. The degree of comparison in Luwian
  10. Sprachkontakt und die Flexionsmorphologie bei der Ausbreitung des Indogermanischen
  11. Zur Endung des Genitivs Plural im Indoiranischen
  12. Syllable weight in Gothic
  13. Phrasem und Nominalkompositum
  14. Scytho-Slavica
  15. Celtic ‘son’, ‘daughter’, other descendants, and *sunus in Early Celtic
  16. Die Verbalpartikel BE im Neuiranischen
  17. Die Numeruskongruenz nach Kardinalzahlen im Hethitischen
  18. Body and soul: the reflexive in Tocharian
  19. Wortindex
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