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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gdesi

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 *dʰǵʰyés-i, locative singular of *dʰǵʰyés (“yesterday”).

Adverb

*gdesi[1]

yesterday

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *deh
- Middle Breton: dech
  - Breton: dec'h
- Old Cornish: doy
  - Cornish: de
- Middle Welsh: doe
  - Welsh: ddoe
Old Irish: indé, indhé
- Middle Irish: indé, inné
  - Irish: inné
  - Manx: jea
  - Scottish Gaelic: an-dè

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gdesi”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 155

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