Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/trīkontes

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *tri-, and the element "kont" (see *kʷenkʷekont) of unknown origin.

Numeral

*trīkontes

**Proto-Celtic cardinal numbers**
< 20	30	40 >
Cardinal : *trīkontes

thirty

Descendants

Brythonic: *trigont
- Old Breton: tricont, trigont
  - Middle Breton: tregont
    - Breton: tregont
Old Irish: trícho
- Middle Irish: trícha
  - Irish: tríocha
Gaulish: tricontis

References

Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović's Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)
Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise, Xavier Delamarre

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