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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/salanos

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

Alternative forms

*salēnos (Brittonic)

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”).[1]

Noun

*salanos m[1]

salt

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*salanos	*salanou	*salanoi
vocative	*salane	*salanou	*salanūs
accusative	*salanom	*salanou	*salanoms
genitive	*salanī	*salanous	*salanom
dative	*salanūi	*salanobom	*salanobos
locative	*salanei	*?	*?
instrumental	*salanū	*salanobim	*salanūis

Related terms

*sālos

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *haluɨn
- Middle Breton: halon
  - Breton: halen
- Old Cornish: haloin
  - Middle Cornish: halan, halen
- Middle Welsh: halwyn, halaen, halen
  - Welsh: halen
Old Irish: salann
- Irish: salann
- Manx: sollan
- Scottish Gaelic: salann

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*salano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 319

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