ᚕᚑᚔ
Primitive Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *koi, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoy, locative singular of the deictic pronoun *ḱey.
Adverb
[edit]ᚕᚑᚔ (koi)
- here (with a verb like “lies” or “is buried” implied)
- BLTAG/2/1 at the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project
- ᚛ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ ᚔᚐᚏᚔ ᚕᚑᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ ᚋᚒᚉᚉᚑᚔ ᚇᚑᚃᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ᚜
- maqqi iari koi maqqi muccoi dovvinias
- The son of Iar [lies] here, son of the tribe of Dovinias
- BLTAG/9/1
- ᚛ᚅᚓᚈᚈᚐᚂᚐᚋᚔᚅᚐᚉᚉᚐ ᚕᚑᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ ᚋᚒᚉᚑᚔ ᚇᚑᚃ[···
- nettalaminacca koi maqqi mucoi dov[...
- Netta-Laminacca [lies] here, son of the tribe of Dov[inias]
- BLTAG/2/1 at the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project
Usage notes
[edit]This is a formula word, uniquely spelled with the supplementary character ᚕ (k). It seems to be equivalent to the Latin formula hic iacet (“here lies”).
References
[edit]- Eska, Joseph F. (1990). “The deictic pronomial ḱey in Celtic”. Celtica 21:153–55.
- McManus, Damian (1991). A Guide to Ogam, Maynooth Monographs 4. Maynooth: An Sagart, p. 81. →ISBN.