Reconstruction:Primitive Irish/ᚋᚓᚇᚒ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *medu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.^[1]

Noun

*ᚋᚓᚇᚒ (*medu) n (u-stem)

mead

Derived terms

ᚋᚓᚇᚇᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔ (meddogeni, male given name, gen. sg., literally “mead-born”)
- Old Irish: Midgen
ᚋᚓᚇᚃᚃᚔ (medvvi, male given name, gen. sg., literally “meady”)
- ⇒ Middle Irish: Medb f
  - Irish: Méabh, Meadhbh, Méadhbh (superseded); Méibh
    - → English: Maeve

Descendants

Old Irish: mid
- Middle Irish: mid
  - Irish: meá
  - Scottish Gaelic: meadh

References

^ Ziegler, Sabine (1994) “*medu-”, in 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 113

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