Reconstruction:Primitive Irish/ᚋᚓᚇᚒ

This Primitive Irish 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.

Primitive Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *medu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.[1]

Noun

*ᚋᚓᚇᚒ (*medu) n (u-stem)

  1. mead

Derived terms

  • ᚋᚓᚇᚇᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔ (meddogeni, male given name, gen. sg., literally “mead-born”)
    • Old Irish: Midgen
  • ᚋᚓᚇᚃᚃᚔ (medvvi, male given name, gen. sg., literally “meady”)

Descendants

  • Old Irish: mid
    • Middle Irish: mid
      • Irish: meá
      • Scottish Gaelic: meadh

References

  1. ^ Ziegler, Sabine (1994) “*medu-”, in Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften [The language of the Old Irish Ogham inscriptions] (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 113
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