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From Primitive Irishᚊᚓᚅᚔᚂᚑᚉᚔ(qeniloci); the first element of this being usually identified as *kʷennom(“head”). The ᚔ(i) in the ogam spelling cannot represent /i/ (otherwise *Cillech would have resulted) nor a palatalizing schwa (otherwise one would expect *Ceillech). It must instead represent a non-palatal schwa. The second element is ancestral to Middle Irishloch(“dark”).
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
^ Ziegler, Sabine (1994) “QENILOCI”, in Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 220f.