ᚏᚑᚇᚐᚌᚅᚔ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *roudos (“red”) +‎ -ᚐᚌᚅᚔ (-agni).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈr͈oːðaɣni/

Noun

ᚏᚑᚇᚐᚌᚅᚔ (rodagni) m

  1. a male given name meaning “red-haired one”

Descendants

  • Old Irish: Rúadán
    • Irish: Ruadhán
      • → English: Rowan
    • Scottish Gaelic: Ruadhan

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 315

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 78–79
  • 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 146
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