Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gablā

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 *gʰh̥₁bʰ-leh₂, likely from *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”) (though Matasovic admits the possibility of a substrate borrowing).^[1]

Noun

*gablā f

fork

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gablā	*gablai	*gablās
vocative	*gablā	*gablai	*gablās
accusative	*gablam	*gablai	*gablāns
genitive	*gablās	*gablous	*gablom
dative	*gablāi	*gablābom	*gablābos
locative	*gablai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*gablābim	*gablābis

Derived terms

*morigablos

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *gaβl
- Old Breton: gabl
  - Breton: gaol
- Cornish: gowl
- Middle Welsh: gafl
  - Welsh: gafl
  - ⇒ Welsh: Yr Eifl (from the dual form *h(ɨ/e)nn ɣėβl < *sindī gablī < *sindai gablai)
Old Irish: gabul
- Irish: gabhal
- Manx: goal
- Scottish Gaelic: gobhal
Gaulish: gabalos, gablos
- → Old French: gable
  - French: gâble, jable
  - → English: gable
  - → Spanish: jable
  - → Galician: xabre
- → Proto-West Germanic: *gabulu (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: gabalus (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gablo/ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 147-8

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gablo/ā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 147-8

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