ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚇᚓᚉᚉᚐᚄ

Primitive Irish

Alternative forms

  • ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚇᚓᚉ (lugudec), ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚇᚓᚉᚐ (lugudeca), ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚇᚒᚉ (luguduc)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *Lugudixs (“one who serves the god Lugus”) from *Lugus + *-dixs (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to serve”) or *deyḱ- (“to point”). Compare Gaulish Lucudeca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl͈uɣuðexah/

Proper noun

ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚇᚓᚉᚉᚐᚄ (lugudeccas) m

  1. a male given name meaning “servant of Lugus”

Descendants

  • Old Irish: Lugaid
    • Irish: Lughaidh

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 258–260
  • Ziegler, Sabine (1994) Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften [The language of the Old Irish Ogham inscriptions] (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 275
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