ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚋᚐᚌᚂᚔ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From *ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (*cuna, “dog”) +‎ *ᚋᚐᚌᚂᚔ (*magli, “chief”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkunaβ̃aɣli/

Proper noun

ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚋᚐᚌᚂᚔ (cunamagli) m

  1. a male given name meaning “dog chief”

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*maglo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 252

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, page 480
  • 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, pages 159–60
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