Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sniyeti

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1) to turn, twist

Reconstruction notes
The short i in the verb is often reconstructed to account for the Brittonic forms like 🇨🇬, but this complicates the etymology significantly as a long *ī is expected from the root in the e-grade and *ā in the zero-grade. The expected e-grade *ī appears in the verbal noun. Schumacher explains the discrepancy by assuming that the expected *ī would break up across a hiatus that would be created in a thematic formation *sneh₁eti: *-eh₁e- > *-īe- > ''*-iye-.

Alternative theories about the verb formation also exist, including:
 * Zair reconstructs *snīyeti (< 🇨🇬) with a straightforward long *ī present and explains the Brittonic forms as having a secondarily shortened vowel.
 * Sandell, following Jasanoff, reconstructs *snīti, a Narten-ablaut athematic present.

Derived terms

 * *kom-sniyeti
 * *snī-mus