karnitus
From Lexicon Leponticum
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Attestation: | NO·19 (autesai kar / nitus petua[), NO·21.1 (tanotaliknoi / kuitos / lekatos / anokopokios / setupokios / esanekoti / anareuiśeos / tanotalos / karnitus) (2) |
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Language: | Celtic |
Word Type: | verb |
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Person: | 3rd |
Number: | pl. |
Tense: | past |
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Morphemic Analysis: | karni-t-ū-s Attention, needs to be checked! |
Phonemic Analysis: | karnitūs Attention, needs to be checked! |
Meaning: | they erected, put |
Commentary
This form is an attestation for a yet unexplained 3rd person plural ending of the past tense karnitu. (see Eska & Evans 2009: 37, Eska 2007-8: 108-109, Eska 2009: 24, Eska 1990: 81, 84-85, Lejeune 1971: 46-47, De Hoz 1995: 61-63)
Bibliography
De Hoz 1995 | Javier De Hoz, "Is -s the mark of the plural of the preterite in the Gaulish verb?", in: Joseph Francis Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (Eds.), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 58-65. |
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Eska & Evans 2009 | Joseph Francis Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (Eds.), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition [= Routledge Language Family Series], London - New York: Routledge 2009. |
Eska 1990 | Joseph Francis Eska, "The so-called weak or dental preterite in Continental Celtic", Historische Sprachforschung 103 (1990), 81-91. |
Eska 2007-8 | Joseph Francis Eska, "Remarks on the 3. plural preterite in -us in Continental Celtic", Die Sprache 47/1 (2007-8), 108-119. |
Eska 2009 | Joseph Francis Eska, "The emergence of the Celtic languages", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (Eds.), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition [= Routledge Language Family Series], London - New York: Routledge 2009, 22-27. |
Lejeune 1971 | Michel Lejeune, Lepontica, Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" 1971. (reprint of the article "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine", Études Celtiques 12/2, 1970-1, pp. 357-500) |