ᚉᚐᚈᚐᚁᚐᚏ

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From ᚉᚐᚈᚈᚒ (cattu, “battle”) +‎ Proto-Celtic *barros (“tip, point”).[1] Compare Old Irish cathbarr (“helmet”), whence Irish cafarr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaθaβar͈/

Proper noun

ᚉᚐᚈᚐᚁᚐᚏ (catabar) m

  1. a male given name meaning “battle-tip”

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “barro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 58

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, page 292
  • 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 146
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