abacc
Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Usually associated with Middle Welsh afanc (“dwarf; beaver”), from Proto-Celtic *abankos (“beaver, dwarf”), a derivative of *abū (“river”).[1] The meaning "dwarf" also appears in Old Breton abac. However, Proto-Celtic *nk should give Goidelic /ɡ/, not /k/.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abacc m
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: abhac
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| abacc | unchanged | n-abacc |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 24
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “abacc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language