Cànan: Proto-Celtic | |
Facal: tantus Gram: nm | |
Gluas: cord, string | Fios: From Proto-Indo-European *tén-tu-s ~ *tn̥-téw-s, from *ten- (“to stretch”). Contains *-tus. --Wikt | The inflection of the word in Goidelic was unstable, leading to scholarly confusion. The Old Irish glosses attest masculine u-stem inflection, but later Gaelic shifted it to ā-stem inflection. --Wikt |