Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/dagos

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.

Unknown. None of the proposed etymologies is plausible (compare Ancient Greek ταχύς (takhús, “fast”), Icelandic tækur (“acceptable”).

Matasovic writes that it could possibly be assimilated from *dako-, which could be from Proto-Indo-European *dko-, also the source of *dekos- (“honor”). This root also gives Old Irish dech, the suppletive superlative to maith (“good”).

*dagos

1. good

   Synonyms: *matis, *su-

• Proto-Brythonic: *daɣ (attested in the Bath curse tablets as an-dagin (“worthless”, accusative singular feminine)).
  • Breton: da
  • Cornish: dâ, da
  • Middle Welsh: da
    • Welsh: da
• Old Irish: dag-, deg-
  • Irish: dea-, deagh- (superseded), deá- (Cois Fharraige)
  • Scottish Gaelic: deagh
• Gaulish: dagos

• Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “dagos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 134