cóennae
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Maybe from Proto-Celtic *kowinos, a vṛddhi-derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwoinom (“mud, dirt”) (whence Latin caenum). Cognate with Breton kevni and Corsican kewny.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cóennae (gender unknown, genitive unattested, no plural)
Derived terms
[edit]- cáennach (“mossy”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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cóennae | chóennae | cóennae pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ David Stifter (2020) “Old Irish etymology through the ages”, in Language & History[1], volume 63, , Excursus 3: OIr. cóennae* ‘moss’, pages 24-46
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáenna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, retrieved 8 August 2024
- Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cáenna”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-7
- Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović[2], Zagreb, page 23