Reconstruction:Primitive Irish/ᚅᚓᚈᚐ

This Primitive Irish entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *neits; beyond that uncertain. Matasović connects it with Old Irish níth (“fight, anger”) and Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸 (neiþ, “hate, malice”), from Proto-Indo-European *neyH- (“to be angry”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈn͈eːθah/

Noun

*ᚅᚓᚈᚐ (*neta) m

  1. warrior, champion

Derived terms

  • ᚅᚓᚈᚈᚐᚂᚐᚋᚔᚅᚐᚉᚉᚐ (nettalaminacca)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚈᚐᚃᚏᚓᚉᚉ (nettavrecc)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚈᚐᚄᚂᚑᚌᚔ (nettaslogi)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚈᚐᚄᚐᚌᚏᚔ (nettasagri)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚐᚃᚏᚑᚊᚔ (netavroqi)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚐᚄᚓᚌᚐᚋᚑᚅᚐᚄ (netasegamonas)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚐᚉᚐᚌᚔ (netacagi)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚐᚉᚐᚏᚔ (netacari)
  • ᚅᚓᚈᚐᚉᚒᚅᚐᚄ (netacunas)

Descendants

  • Old Irish: nïa
    • Irish: nia
    • Scottish Gaelic: niadh

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nītu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 291

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.