Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/enigenos

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.

From *eni- (“in-”) +‎ *-genos (“born”).

*enigenos

1. born into a social group^[1] (e.g. a family, a lineage)

• De Bernardo Stempel assigns an adjectival meaning "born inside a social group" to this "shared compound" in common between Gaulish and Irish. Even though De Bernardo Stempel does not explicitly reconstruct an adjective herself, doing so would be the simplest way to unify the opposite-gender reflexes between Gaulish and Irish.

• Primitive Irish: ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena, “daughter”)
  • Old Irish: ingen
    • Middle Irish: ingen
      • Irish: iníon, inghean (superseded), inghin, inín (Connacht), nighean, níon (Ulster), inín
      • Manx: inneen
      • Scottish Gaelic: nighean, nigheann, inghean
    • ⇒ Middle Irish: ingenach
    • ⇒ Middle Irish: ingenas
      • Irish: iníonas
• Gaulish: *Enigenos
  • → Latin: Enigenus