ist-

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Type:	lexical
Function:	demonstrative pronoun
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/its/-
From PIE:	*isto-
Attestation:	iśos

Commentary

Thematic demonstrative pronominal stem < PIE *is (nom.sg.m.) + *to- (a thematicised particle or pronominal *to-), also attested in Gaulish ison (acc.sg.m./n.), isoc (adv.) on the Chamalières tablet (RIG L-100), and Celtib. (with apheresis) śTam (acc.sg.f., MLH K.06.01), śTena (acc.pl.n., Botorrita I A3, A6) and (without apheresis) isTe (deictic particle, Botorrita I A9, A11); see Eska 1991 for a detailed discussion. Cf. also Schrijver 1997: 16, 63.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Eska 1991	Joseph F. Eska, "The demonstrative stem *isto- in Continental Celtic", Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 44 (1991), 70–73.