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Old Irish
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Celtic *kowinos, a vṛddhi-derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwoinom (“mud, dirt”) (whence Latin caenum). Cognate with Breton kevni and Corsican kewny.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cóennae (gender unknown, genitive unattested, no plural)
- moss
Derived terms
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| cóennae
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chóennae
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cóennae
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ David Stifter (2020) “Old Irish etymology through the ages”, in Language & History, volume 63, →DOI, Excursus 3: OIr. cóennae* ‘moss’, pages 24-46
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáenna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, retrieved 8 August 2024
- Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cáenna”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-7
- Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović, Zagreb, page 23