ᚉᚒᚂᚔᚇᚑᚃᚔ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kulis (“gnat, fly”) + *dubus (“black”). Matasović suggests a reconstruction *Kūlidubwī since the development *-bw- to -v- is regular in Primitive Irish.[1] The long ū in that suggestion also implies that the first element is *kūlos (“corner, backside”), but a derivation from *kulis better explains why the linking vowel is -i- rather than -o- or -a-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuliðowiː/

Proper noun

ᚉᚒᚂᚔᚇᚑᚃᚔ (culidovi) m

  1. a male given name meaning “black fly”

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dubu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 108

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, page 127
  • 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 157
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