Cellach

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚊᚓᚅᚔᚂᚑᚉᚔ (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 Irish loch (“dark”).

Proper noun

Cellach m (genitive Cellaig)

  1. a male given name

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Cellach — —
Vocative Cellaig — —
Accusative CellachN — —
Genitive CellaigL — —
Dative *CelluchL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: Cellach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
Cellach Chellach Cellach
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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