ᚄᚑᚌᚔᚅᚔ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *Sugenos, variant of *Esugenos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su-ǵenh₁ós (“well born”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit सुजन (sujana, “good person”) and a parallel formation to Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios) (English Eugene).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoɣini/

Proper noun

ᚄᚑᚌᚔᚅᚔ (sogini) m

  1. a male given name meaning “well born”

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: Sogain (in Corcu Sogain)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*genetā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 158

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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