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Proto-Celtic · reconstructed language

*luxtus

noun

Meaning

  1. contents
  2. people, crowd

Etymology / origin

Unknown. Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *lewǵ- (“to fracture, break”) (see Sanskrit रुजति (rujati)). However, many Celticists like Delamarre, Irslinger and Matasović express skepticism of a semantic connection to that root.

  1. रुजति(Sanskrit)
  2. *lewǵ-(ine-pro)
  3. luxtus (Proto-Celtic)
  4. Relations: der, cog

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