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Reconstruction:Primitive Irish/ᚓᚊᚐᚄ
Primitive Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Cognate with Latin equus, Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), Sanskrit अश्व (áśva), Old Armenian էշ (ēš, “donkey”).
Derived terms
- ᚓᚊᚊᚕᚌᚅᚔ (eqqeagni, given name, literally “little horse”)
- Old Irish: Echén
- ᚓᚊᚑᚇᚇᚔ (eqoddi, given name, literally “horse descendant”)
- Old Irish: Echaid
References
- Ziegler, Sabine (1994) 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 103
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