eclas

According to Deborah Hayden and David Stifter, from Proto-Celtic *exs-glassos or *exs-glassā (“out(side)-stomach”) from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs-gʰl̥H-stos from *gʰelH- (“digestive organ, stomach”), related to Old Irish gaile (“stomach”), Middle Breton elas, Breton elaz (“gizzard”), Welsh glasog (“gizzard”), afu glas (“gizzard”), Old Cornish glas (“stomach”), Ancient Greek χολάδες (kholádes, “intestines”), Ancient Macedonian γόλα (góla, “intestines”), Proto-Slavic *želǫdъkъ (“stomach”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɡləs/, [ˈeɡlas]

eclas (gender unknown)

1. stomach
2. craw, gizzard

In the Würzburg glosses, there is attested an o-stem genitive singular eclis.

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29^a26

  ar biith galar n-eclis fort-su

  for the gastric disease abides on thee

• Irish: eagaois (“gizzard”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eclas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language