Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/lorgā

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Old Norse lurkr (“club”) (source of Swedish lurk (“lout, boor”)) is related, but it could be a borrowing from Celtic. If so, the Celtic is without Indo-European cognates, and could be ultimately borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.

Pokorny, however, derives both from Proto-Indo-European *lorgā- (“club, stick”), also comparing regional German Lorg, Lork (“mythical giant”)^[1]

Noun

*lorgā f^[2]

club, stick

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lorgā	*lorgai	*lorgās
vocative	*lorgā	*lorgai	*lorgās
accusative	*lorgam	*lorgai	*lorgāms
genitive	*lorgās	*lorgous	*lorgom
dative	*lorgāi	*lorgābom	*lorgābos
locative	*lorgai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*lorgābim	*lorgābis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *llorɣ
- Breton: lorc'henn (“shaft”), lorc'h (“vanity”)
- Old Cornish: lorch (“baculus”)
  - Cornish: lorgh
- Middle Welsh: llwry, llory, llyry
Old Irish: lorg (“club, staff, stick”)
- Irish: lorg
- Scottish Gaelic: lorg

References

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “691-92”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 691-92
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lorgā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 244-45