eclas

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Old Irish

Etymology

According to Deborah Hayden and David Stifter, from Proto-Celtic *exs-glassos or *exs-glassā (“out(side)-stomach”) from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs-gʰl̥H-ST-o/eh₂- from *gʰelH- (“digestive organ, stomach”), related to Old Irish gaile (“stomach”), Middle Breton elas, Breton elaz (“gizzard”), Welsh glasog (“gizzard”), afu glas (“gizzard”), Old Cornish glas (“stomach”), Ancient Greek χολάδες (kholádes, “intestines”), Ancient Macedonian γόλα (góla, “intestines”), Proto-Slavic *želǫdъkъ (“stomach”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

eclas (gender unknown)

  1. stomach
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29a26
      ar biith galar n-eclis fort-su
      for the gastric disease abides on thee
  2. craw, gizzard

Inflection

In the Würzburg glosses, there is attested an o-stem genitive singular eclis.

Descendants

  • Irish: eaglais (“gizzard”)

References

  1. ^ David Stifter (2022 September 14) “Etymology of Old Irish eclas "gizzard" (St Cormac's Day 2022)”, in David Stifter’s YouTube Channel‎
  2. ^ Deborah Hayden, David Stifter (2022) “The lexicography and etymology of OIr. eclas”, in North American Journal of Celtic Studies‎, volume 6, number 2, →DOI, pages 236–250

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