Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ankus

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *neḱ-. Cognate with Ancient Greek νέκυς (nékus), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎‎ (nasu, “corpse”) and Tocharian A oṅk (“man”). A comparison of all PIE cognates enables a PIE noun with nom. *neḱus and gen. *nkews to be reconstructed, the oblique case being generalized to all cases as with other words such as *angʷīnā and *anman.

Noun

*ankus m

death

Declension

Masculine/feminine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ankus	*ankū	*ankowes
vocative	*anku	*ankū	*ankūs
accusative	*ankum	*ankū	*ankūs
genitive	*ankous	*ankous	*ankowom
dative	*ankou	*ankubom	*ankubos
instrumental	*ankū	*ankubim	*ankubis

Related terms

*anxtu

Descendants

Brythonic:
- Old Breton: ancou
  - Middle Breton: ancou
    - Breton: ankow
- Cornish: ankow
- Middle Welsh: angheu
  - Welsh: angau
Old Irish: éc
- Irish: éag
- Scottish Gaelic: eug

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*anku-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 37

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