Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bolgos

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 *bʰólǵʰ-o-s (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

Noun

*bolgos m

sack, bag
stomach

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bolgos	*bolgou	*bolgoi
vocative	*bolge	*bolgou	*bolgūs
accusative	*bolgom	*bolgou	*bolgūs
genitive	*bolgī	*bolgous	*bolgom
dative	*bolgūi	*bolgobom	*bolgobos
instrumental	*bolgū	*bolgobim	*bolgobis

Descendants

Brythonic: *bolɣ
- Middle Breton: bolc'h
  - Breton: bolc'h
- Cornish: bolgh
- Middle Welsh: boly, boliau, byly
  - Welsh: bol, bola
Old Irish: bolg
- Irish: bolg
- Manx: bolg
- Scottish Gaelic: bolgan
Gaulish: *bolgā
- → Medieval Latin: bulga (see there for further descendants)

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