Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/(ɸ)lissos

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”), with the laryngeal somehow lost.^[1]^[2] Matasović is unconvinced.^[3] Stifter provides an alternative derivation from *leys- (“to trace; track”).^[4]

Noun

*(ɸ)lissos m

yard
court

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ɸlissos	*ɸlissou	*ɸlissoi
vocative	*ɸlisse	*ɸlissou	*ɸlissoi
accusative	*ɸlissom	*ɸlissou	*ɸlissons
genitive	*ɸlissī	*ɸlissous	*ɸlissom
dative	*ɸlissūi	*ɸlissobom	*ɸlissobos
locative	*ɸlissei	*?	*?
instrumental	*ɸlissū	*ɸlissobim	*ɸlissūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *llɨs
- Old Breton: lis
  - Middle Breton: les
    - Breton: lez
- Middle Cornish: lis
  - Cornish: lys
  - ⇒ Middle Cornish: Lisnewyth
    - Cornish: Lysnowyth
    - → English: Lesnewth
- Middle Welsh: llys, llis
  - Welsh: llys (“court”)
Old Irish: les (“yard”)
- Middle Irish: les, less
  - Irish: lios
  - Scottish Gaelic: lios

References

^ Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002), Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 283-284
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “lissos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 204
^ Matasović, Ranko (December 2011), “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb, pages 24-25
^ Zair, Nicholas (2012), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 189

[1] Irslinger, Britta Sofie (2002), Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen [Abstracts with Dental Suffixes in Old Irish] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, pages 283-284

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “lissos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 204

[3] Matasović, Ranko (December 2011), “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[1], Zagreb, pages 24-25

[4] Zair, Nicholas (2012), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 189

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