ᚈᚔᚌᚔᚏᚅ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tigernos (“lord, ruler”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiɣir͈n͈/

Noun

ᚈᚔᚌᚔᚏᚅ (tigirn) m

  1. lord, ruler

Quotations

  • c. 5th–6th century C.E., Kilcoolaght East ogham stones:[2]
    ᚛ᚐᚅᚋ ᚃᚔᚏ[ᚏ][--]ᚐᚅ[ᚅ]ᚔ ᚈᚔᚌᚔᚏᚅ᚜
    anm vir[r][--]an[n]i tigirn
    (in the) name of Virr[--]annos the lord

Derived terms

  • ᚃᚑᚏᚈᚔᚌᚒᚏᚅ (vortigurn)
  • ᚈᚔᚌᚓᚏᚅᚐᚉᚔ (tigernaci)

Descendants

  • Old Irish: tigern
  • ⇒ Old Irish: tigernae

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 378–79
  2. ^ Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 201–202

Further reading

  • 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 148
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