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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/ganskyos

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

Possibly from earlier *kankskyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱank-sḱ-, from *ḱank- (branch)[1]. Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐍉𐌷𐌰 (hōha, plough), Lithuanian šakà (branch), Old East Slavic соха (soxa, stake, club, brace, plough), Old Armenian ցախ (cʿax, branch, twig), Sanskrit शाखा (śā́khā), Persian شاخ (šâx, branch).

Noun

*ganskyos m

  1. branch, twig

Declension

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *kankyos *kankyou *kankyoi
vocative *kankye *kankyou *kankyūs
accusative *kankyom *kankyou *kankyūs
genitive *kankyī *kankyous *kankyom
dative *kankyūi *kankyobom *kankyobos
instrumental *kankyū *kankyobim *kankyobis

Descendants

  • Old Irish: gésca[2]
  • Gaulish: *ganskyos[3]
    • Vulgar Latin: *ganscius
      • Latin: gascheria, gascaria
        • Old French: gaschiere, gaskiere
          • Middle French: ghasquière, gasquiere, guachière
      • Catalan: ganxo
      • Galician: gancho
      • Occitan: gànchou
      • Portuguese: gancho
      • Spanish: gancho
      • Venetian: ganzo
        • Dalmatian: gȁnac
        • Greek: γάντζος (gántzos)
        • → Ottoman Turkish: قانجه (kanca, kance), قنجه (kanca, kance)
          • Turkish: kanca
          • → Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
          • Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
          • Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
          • Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
          • Bulgarian: ка̀нджа (kàndža)
          • Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
          • Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
          • Romanian: cánge
          • Serbo-Croatian:
            Cyrillic: ка̑нџа
            Latin: kȃndža

References

  1. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157
  2. Strachan, John (1898), “The compensatory lengthening of vowels in Irish”, in Philological Society (Great Britain), page 252: “gésca 'branch' = *cancscaio”
  3. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 798
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