ᚐᚃᚔᚈᚈᚑᚏᚔᚌᚓᚄ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From a derivative of Proto-Celtic *aitom (“life, age”).[1] The second part could be a feminine derivative of Proto-Celtic *rīxs (“king, ruler”), but this is uncertain. At any rate, like most Primitive Irish nouns, this term is in the genitive case, the -iges (where g is just a spelling of /j/) representing the regular Goidelic reflex of the Proto-Celtic genitive singular ending *-(i)yās of a feminine noun whose nominative ends in *-(i)yā or *-ī (compare Old Irish -e).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈawiθorijeh/

Proper noun

ᚐᚃᚔᚈᚈᚑᚏᚔᚌᚓᚄ (avittoriges) f

  1. a female given name, masculine equivalent ᚐᚃᚔᚈᚑᚏᚔ (avitori)

Quotations

  • 5th century C.E., “EGLWC/1/2”, in Celtic Inscribed Stones Project‎[1], archived from the original on 2 January 2015:
    ᚛ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ ᚉᚒᚅᚔᚌᚅᚔ ᚐᚃᚔᚈᚈᚑᚏᚔᚌᚓᚄ᚜
    inigena cunigni avittoriges
    Avitoriges, daughter of Cunignus
    Bilingual inscription alongside Latin AVITORIA FILIA CUNIGNI

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*ay-sso-, *ay-to-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 51
  2. ^ Jackson, Kenneth (1953) Language and History in Early Britain: a chronological survey of the Brittonic Languages, 1st to 12th c. A.D., Edinburgh: The University Press, →ISBN, page 186
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