ᚊᚏᚔᚈᚈᚔ

Primitive Irish

Alternative forms

  • ᚊᚏᚔᚈ (qrit)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷritiyos (“shaper, former”) (whence Welsh prydydd), from *kʷritus (“form, shape”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make”). Compare also Old Irish cruth (“form, shape, appearance”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʷriθi/

Proper noun

ᚊᚏᚔᚈᚈᚔ (qritti) m

  1. a male given name meaning “poet, bard”

Derived terms

  • ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚊᚏᚔᚈ (luguqrit)

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 266–267
  • 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 213
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