ᚃᚓᚇᚐᚉᚒᚅᚐ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *weidus (“wild”) +‎ *ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (*cuna, “dog”).[1] The name could therefore mean “wild dog”, but in Old Irish fíad had come to mean “wild animal(s), game” and many of its derivatives refer to hunting. It is therefore possible that this name means “hunting dog”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈweːðaxunah/

Proper noun

ᚃᚓᚇᚐᚉᚒᚅᚐ (vedacuna) m

  1. a male given name meaning “wild dog” or “hunting dog”

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wēdu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 408

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 123–124
  • 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 233, 236, 242
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