Reconstruction:Primitive Irish/ᚉᚒᚅᚐ

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 *kū (compare Welsh ci), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog, hound”).

Noun

*ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (*cuna) m (genitive)

  1. hound, wolf

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Irish: cú
    • Middle Irish: cú
      • Irish: cú
      • Manx: coo
      • Scottish Gaelic: cù

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 181
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