ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚌᚒᚄᚄᚑᚄ

Primitive Irish

Alternative forms

  • ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚌᚒᚄᚑᚄ (cunagusos)[1]

Etymology

From *ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (*cuna) +‎ Proto-Celtic *gustus (“force”).[2] As the Primitive Irish form is attested in the genitive singular, it technically comes from Proto-Celtic *gustous. It is unclear whether the unstressed vowel of the final syllable was still contrastively long in Primitive Irish, but at any rate it did not merge with a as original unstressed short o did.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkunaɣuso(ː)h/

Proper noun

ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚌᚒᚄᚄᚑᚄ (cunagussos) m

  1. a male given name meaning “dog force”

References

  1. ^ Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 73–74
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gustu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 169

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