Reconstruction:Primitive Irish/ᚓᚊᚐᚄ

This Primitive Irish entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Cognate with Latin equus, Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), Sanskrit अश्व (áśva), Old Armenian էշ (ēš, “donkey”).

Noun

*ᚓᚊᚐᚄ (*eqas) m

1. horse

Derived terms

• ᚓᚊᚊᚕᚌᚅᚔ (eqqeagni, given name, literally “little horse”)
  • Old Irish: Echén
• ᚓᚊᚑᚇᚇᚔ (eqoddi, given name, literally “horse descendant”)
  • Old Irish: Echaid

Descendants

• Old Irish: ech
  • Middle Irish: each
    • Irish: each
    • Manx: agh, eagh
    • Scottish Gaelic: each

References

• Ziegler, Sabine (1994) 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 103