rígan

See also: Rigan

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• rígain

Etymology

From Old Irish rígain, from Proto-Celtic *rīganī.

Noun

rígan f

1. queen

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Coordinate terms

• rí (“king”)

Descendants

• Irish: ríon, banríon
• Manx: rein, benrein
• Scottish Gaelic: rìghinn, banrìghinn, rìbhinn

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rígan, rígain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language