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Primitive Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *weidus (“wild”) + *ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (*cuna, “dog”). The name could therefore mean “wild dog”, but in Old Irish fíad had come to mean “wild animal(s), game” and many of its derivatives refer to hunting. It is therefore possible that this name means “hunting dog”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
ᚃᚓᚇᚐᚉᚒᚅᚐ (vedacuna) m
- a male given name meaning “wild dog” or “hunting dog”
References
Further reading
- Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 123–124
- Ziegler, Sabine (1994) Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 233, 236, 242