Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/orgenā

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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.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

From a feminine substantivization of a *-nós verbal adjective built to the present stem *orge/o- of *orgeti.[1]

Noun

*orgenā f[2]

  1. killing, murder, slaughter

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *orgenā *orgenai *orgenās
vocative *orgenā *orgenai *orgenās
accusative *orgenam *orgenai *orgenāms
genitive *orgenās *orgenous *orgenom
dative *orgenāi *orgenābom *orgenābos
locative *orgenai *? *?
instrumental *? *orgenābim *orgenābis

Descendants

  • Old Irish: orcun
    • Middle Irish: orcan, organ, argan
  • Latin: Orgeno (Gaulish theonym)
  • Latin: Orgenomesquī (name of a Cantabrian tribe, literally drunk on slaughter)

References

  1. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 113
  2. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “orget(o)-, orgeno-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 244