ᚇᚑᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐ

Primitive Irish

Alternative forms

  • ᚇᚑᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ (dovinias), ᚇᚑᚃᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ (dovvinias)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *Dubwinyā, from *dubwiyom (“grief, gloom”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdowinija(ː)h/

Proper noun

ᚇᚑᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐ (dovinia) f

  1. (Irish mythology) name of a Celtic goddess
  2. name of a sept or tribe

Descendants

  • ⇒ Old Irish: Corcu Duibne (tribe name)
    • Irish: Corca Dhuibhne (“Dingle Peninsula”)
      • → English: Corcaguiny, Corkaguiny

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*du(s)bwuyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 168–71
  • 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 264
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