Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/Esugenos

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

Perhaps from *esus (“good”) +‎ *genos (“born; family”) (compare Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios), Sanskrit सुजन (sujana)).[1][2] First element alternatively from *Aysus, *Esus of uncertain theonym meaning.[3][4][2]

Proper noun

*Esugenos m

(Gaulish) a male given name

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*Esugenos	—	—
vocative	*Esugene	—	—
accusative	*Esugenom	—	—
genitive	*Esugenī	—	—
dative	*Esugenūi	—	—
locative	*Esugenei	—	—
instrumental	*Esugenū	—	—

Reconstruction notes

An older hypothesis also compared Old Irish Eógan, Irish Eoghan, Scottish Gaelic Eòghan and sometimes also descendants of Proto-Celtic *Awiganyos; but these connections are considered phonetically impossible, and the former are more likely from Proto-Celtic *Iwogenos, q.v. for more.

Descendants

Gaulish: Esugeni

References

Pokorny, Julius (1959) “esu-s”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 342
Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 337
Ludwig Rübekeil, Diachrone Studien zur Kontaktzone zwischen Kelten und Germanen, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, p. 197.
Stifter, David, "Inscriptiones Pseudocelticae. Wrong and premature ascriptions of inscriptions as Celtic", in: Interpretierte Eisenzeiten. Die erfundenen Kelten – Mythologie eines Begriffes und seine Verwendung in Archäologie, Tourismus und Esoterik. Tagungsbeiträge der 4. Gespräche zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchäologie. Raimund Karl, Jutta Leskovar, Stefan Moser (Hrsg.) [= Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich 31], Linz: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum 2012, pp. 293–301 (p. 297).

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[IEW-1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “esu-s”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 342

[Mallory-2] Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 337

[3] Ludwig Rübekeil, Diachrone Studien zur Kontaktzone zwischen Kelten und Germanen, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, p. 197.

[4] Stifter, David, "Inscriptiones Pseudocelticae. Wrong and premature ascriptions of inscriptions as Celtic", in: Interpretierte Eisenzeiten. Die erfundenen Kelten – Mythologie eines Begriffes und seine Verwendung in Archäologie, Tourismus und Esoterik. Tagungsbeiträge der 4. Gespräche zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchäologie. Raimund Karl, Jutta Leskovar, Stefan Moser (Hrsg.) [= Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich 31], Linz: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum 2012, pp. 293–301 (p. 297).