abacc
Middle Irish
editEtymology
editUsually associated with Middle Welsh afanc (“dwarf; beaver”), from Proto-Celtic *abankos (“beaver, dwarf”), a derivative of *abū (“river”).[1] The meaning "dwarf" also appears in Old Breton abac. However, Proto-Celtic *nk should give Goidelic /ɡ/, not /k/.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editabacc m
Descendants
edit- Irish: abhac
Mutation
edit| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| abacc | unchanged | n-abacc |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 24
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “abacc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language