ᚓᚏᚉᚐ

Primitive Irish

Alternative forms

  • ᚓᚏᚉ (erc)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸerkos (“speckled”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“colored, speckled”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈerkah/

Proper noun

ᚓᚏᚉᚐ (erca) m

  1. a male given name meaning “speckled animal (fish, cow, lizard, salamander etc.)”

Derived terms

  • ᚓᚏᚉᚐᚃᚔᚉᚉᚐᚄ (ercaviccas)
  • ᚓᚏᚉᚐᚌᚅᚔ (ercagni)
  • ᚓᚏᚉᚐᚔᚇᚐᚅᚐ (ercaidana)

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: erc (“speckled; speckled animal”)
    • Irish: earc (“lizard”)
    • Scottish Gaelic: earc (“speckled animal”)
    • ⇒ Manx: eairkag (“newt”)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*ferko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 128

Further reading

  • Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 162–163
  • 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 178–179, 193
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