ᚂᚒᚌᚐ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *Lugus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl͈uɣah/

Proper noun

ᚂᚒᚌᚐ (luga) m

  1. (Irish mythology) Lugh

Derived terms

  • ᚂᚒᚌᚏᚔ (lugri)
  • ᚂᚒᚌᚐᚇᚇᚑᚅ (lugaddon)
  • ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚃᚃᚓᚉᚉᚐ (luguvvecca)
  • ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚅᚔ (luguni)
  • ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚇᚓᚉᚉᚐᚄ (lugudeccas)
  • ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚈᚈᚔ (lugutti)
  • ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚊᚊᚏᚔᚈᚈᚐᚄ (luguqqrittas)
  • ᚈᚏᚓᚅᚐᚂᚒᚌᚑᚄ (trenalugos)

Descendants

  • Old Irish: Lug
    • Irish: Lú, Lugh (superseded)
      • → English: Lugh
    • Scottish Gaelic: Lùgh

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 262–264
  • 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, pages 263–264, 274
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