Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/tarwos

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

Tarvos Triganus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *táwros (“wild bull, aurochs”), with metathesis of -wr- to -rw-.

Noun

*tarwos m

bull

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tarwos	*tarwou	*tarwoi
vocative	*tarwe	*tarwou	*tarwūs
accusative	*tarwom	*tarwou	*tarwūs
genitive	*tarwī	*tarwous	*tarwom
dative	*tarwūi	*tarwobom	*tarwobos
instrumental	*tarwū	*tarwobim	*tarwobis

Descendants

Brythonic: *tarw
- Old Breton: taruu
  - Middle Breton: taru
    - Breton: tarw, tarv
- Old Cornish: tarow
  - Cornish: tarow
- Middle Welsh: tarw
  - Welsh: tarw
Old Irish: tarb
- Irish: tarbh
- Manx: tarroo
- Scottish Gaelic: tarbh
- → Old Norse: tarfr (see there for further descendants)
Gaulish: taruos

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 371

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