Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/duwo

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

from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ due to Lindeman’s Law.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdu.wo/, /ˈtu.wo/

Numeral

**Proto-Celtic cardinal numbers**
< 1	2	3 >
Cardinal : duwo Ordinal* : *alyos

*duwo

two

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *dọw
- Breton: daou
- Cornish: dew
- Welsh: dau
Old Irish: dá
- Irish: dhá, dá, a dó
- Manx: daa
- Scottish Gaelic: dà, dhà

References

Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 46- PIE *duu̯o ‘2’ in Germanic and Celtic, and the nom.-acc. dual of non-neuter o-stems. W. Cowgill. 1985. Pp. 13-28.

Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology. P. Schrijver. 1995. Pg 331.

Laryngeal Realism and the Prehistory of Celtic. JF. Eska. 2018.

`Kim McCone (1994), “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in Kim McCone, Damian McManus, Cathal Ó Háinle, Nicholas Williams, Liam Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, Maigh Nuad, →ISBN, §35.3, page 202`

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