ᚇᚐᚂᚔ

Primitive Irish

Alternative forms

  • ᚇᚐᚂᚑ (dalo)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dallos.[1] The alternative form ᚇᚐᚂᚑ (dalo) appears to be the genitive singular of an i- or u-stem and so may be etymologically unrelated.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdal͈i]

Noun

ᚇᚐᚂᚔ (dali) m

  1. blind man

Usage notes

It is possible that this term functioned as a given name for a specific blind man.

Quotations

  • c. 4th to 6th century C.E., “MONAT/2”, in Celtic Inscribed Stones Project‎[1], archived from the original on 9 December 2009:
    ᚛ᚇᚐᚂᚐᚌᚅᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚇᚐᚂᚔ᚜
    dalagni maqi dali
    [the stone of] Dalagnos, son of the blind man

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Irish: dall

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “dallo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 87-88

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 118–19
  • 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 164
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