"kʷrīyets" meaning in Proto-Celtic

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Noun

Etymology: Generally agreed to be related to Latin creta (“clay, chalk, soil”), but the relationship is mysterious. The Latin word itself could be related to cerno (“I separate”), Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to divide, separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Mallory & Adams reconstruct *tkʷreh₁yot-, adding Tocharian B tukri (“clay”); Matasovic suggests *kʷreh₁ + Proto-Celtic *-yet-, adding that the Tocharian words could have had their own prefix. However, these all could have instead been borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate. Etymology templates: {{cog|la|creta|t=clay, chalk, soil}} Latin creta (“clay, chalk, soil”), {{cog|grc|κρίνω|t=to divide, separate}} Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to divide, separate”), {{der|cel-pro|ine-pro|*krey-}} Proto-Indo-European *krey-, {{cog|txb|tukri|t=clay}} Tocharian B tukri (“clay”), {{cog|cel-pro|*-yet-}} Proto-Celtic *-yet-, {{der|cel-pro|qfa-sub|-}} substrate Head templates: {{head|cel-pro|noun|cat2=|g=?|g2=|g3=|head=}} *kʷrīyets ? Inflection templates: {{cel-decl-noun-cons-mf|kʷrīyet}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], kʷrīyets [nominative, singular], kʷrīyete [dual, nominative], kʷrīyetes [nominative, plural], kʷrīyets [singular, vocative], kʷrīyete [dual, vocative], kʷrīyetes [plural, vocative], kʷrīyetam [accusative, singular], kʷrīyete [accusative, dual], kʷrīyetans [accusative, plural], kʷrīyetos [genitive, singular], kʷrīyetou [dual, genitive], kʷrīyetom [genitive, plural], kʷrīyetei [dative, singular], kʷrīyetobom [dative, dual], kʷrīyetobos [dative, plural], kʷrīyeti [locative, singular], - [dual, locative], - [locative, plural], kʷrīyete? [instrumental, singular], kʷrīyetobim [dual, instrumental], kʷrīyetobis [instrumental, plural]
  1. clay Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-kʷrīyets-cel-pro-noun-BjY1VQVN Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Celtic entries with incorrect language header
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        {
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            {
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                {
                  "lang": "Breton",
                  "lang_code": "br",
                  "word": "pri"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Middle Breton",
              "lang_code": "xbm",
              "word": "pri"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Breton",
          "lang_code": "obt",
          "word": "pri"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "lang_code": "kw",
          "word": "pri"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Welsh",
              "lang_code": "cy",
              "word": "pridd"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Middle Welsh",
          "lang_code": "wlm",
          "word": "pridd"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Brythonic",
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      "word": "*prið"
    },
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      "descendants": [
        {
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            {
              "lang": "Irish",
              "lang_code": "ga",
              "word": "cré"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Manx",
              "lang_code": "gv",
              "word": "cray"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
              "lang_code": "gd",
              "word": "crè"
            }
          ],
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
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      },
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    {
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrīyetou",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrīyetei",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kʷrīyetobos",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrīyeti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrīyete?",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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      ]
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        "cat2": "",
        "g": "?",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "*kʷrīyets ?",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/kʷrīyets",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "clay",
          "clay"
        ]
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      ]
    }
  ],
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}
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        {
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                {
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    {
      "form": "kʷrīyets",
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      ]
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    {
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    {
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    {
      "form": "kʷrīyete",
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        "vocative"
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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        "plural"
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        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "kʷrīyetobom",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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    },
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    },
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "singular"
      ]
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        "Proto-Celtic lemmas",
        "Proto-Celtic nouns",
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        "Requests for gender in Proto-Celtic entries"
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}

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