Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/orgenā

This Proto-Celtic 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.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

From a feminine substantivization of a *-nós verbal adjective built to the present stem *orge/o- of *orgeti.^[1]

Noun

*orgenā f^[2]

killing, murder, slaughter

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orgenā	*orgenai	*orgenās
vocative	*orgenā	*orgenai	*orgenās
accusative	*orgenam	*orgenai	*orgenāms
genitive	*orgenās	*orgenous	*orgenom
dative	*orgenāi	*orgenābom	*orgenābos
locative	*orgenai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*orgenābim	*orgenābis

Descendants

Old Irish: orcun
- Middle Irish: orcan, organ, argan
  - Irish: argain
→⇒ Latin: Orgeno (Gaulish theonym)
→⇒ Latin: Orgenomesquī (name of a Cantabrian tribe, literally “drunk on slaughter”)

References

^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 113
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “orget(o)-, orgeno-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 244

[1] Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 113

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “orget(o)-, orgeno-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 244

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