Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bolgos

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 *bʰólǵʰ-o-s (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).^[1]

Noun

*bolgos m

sack, bag
stomach

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bolgos	*bolgou	*bolgoi
vocative	*bolge	*bolgou	*bolgoi
accusative	*bolgom	*bolgou	*bolgons
genitive	*bolgī	*bolgous	*bolgom
dative	*bolgūi	*bolgobom	*bolgobos
locative	*bolgei	*?	*?
instrumental	*bolgū	*bolgobim	*bolgūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *bolɣ
- Middle Breton: bolc'h
  - Breton: bolc'h
- Cornish: bolgh
- Middle Welsh: boly, boliau, byly
  - Welsh: bol, bola
Old Irish: bolg
- Irish: bolg
  - →⇒ Yola: wurgheere (< bhoilg)
- Manx: bolg
- ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: bolgan
- ⇒ Middle Irish: saigetbolc
Gaulish: *bolgā
- → Medieval Latin: bulga
  - → Old French: bouge, boulge, bolge (see there for further descendants)

References

^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

[1] R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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