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Proto-Celtic · reconstructed language

*toutos

adj

Meaning

  1. left, north

Etymology / origin

Uncertain. Pokorny connected the terms with Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸 (þiuþ, “good thing”), Latin tueor (“to gaze”), Proto-Germanic *þiudijaz (“kind, good, friendly”). Based on these forms, he reconstructed a root of the shape Proto-Indo-European *tew-. Likewise, Mallory also presumes a root of the shape *tew- as the ultimate source of Old Irish tuāth. Matasović suggests a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European *tewto-, though he considers an IE etymology to be "conjectural." According to Matasović, Old Breton tut (“favorable”) appears to belong to the same term as Old Irish túaid (“left, north”). Moreover, these terms may be connected to Old Breton tuthe (“a kind of demon”) and Old Irish túath (“perverse”). However, the semantic discrepancies between these terms complicate their proposed relationship. Matasović suggests that the meanings of these terms may have diverged due to some sort of taboo replacement. Matasović further suggests a possible relation to Latin tūtus (“safe”) and Gothic þiuþ (“boon”).

  1. þiuþ(Gothic)→
  2. tūtus(la)→
  3. túath(Old Irish)→
  4. tuthe(obt)→
  5. túaid(Old Irish)→
  6. tut(obt)→
  7. tuāth(sga)→
  8. *þiudijaz(gem-pro)→
  9. tueor(Latin)→
  10. 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸(Gothic)→
  11. toutos (Proto-Celtic)
  12. Relations: cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog

Related words

𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸(Gothic)tueor(Latin)*þiudijaz(gem-pro)tuāth(sga)tut(obt)túaid(Old Irish)tuthe(obt)túath(Old Irish)tūtus(la)þiuþ(Gothic)

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