mac

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mac m (genitive mic, nominative plural mic)

Irish: mac

Manx: mac

Scottish Gaelic: mac

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“to raise, increase”).


fer

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fer m (genitive fir, nominative plural fir)

fir (genitive)
fir (nominative plural)
fer (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟer (lenition mutation)
fer (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: fear

Manx: fer

Scottish Gaelic: fear

From Old Irish fer, from Primitive Irish *ᚃᚔᚏᚐᚄ (*viras), from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din chētgabāil, iss ed no·ithed.

c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 13:

Each man who came along the way would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he got at the first taking, it was that which he ate. (literally, “The man who…”)


fuil

fola (genitive)
fuil (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟuil (lenition mutation)
fuil (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: fuil

Manx: fuill

Scottish Gaelic: fuil

From Old Irish fuil, from Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-.


aite

aite m (genitive aiti, nominative plural aiti)

aiti (genitive)
aiti (nominative plural)
aite (nominative singular)
aite (dual nominative)
aiti (nominative plural)
aiti (singular vocative)
aite (dual vocative)
aitiu (plural vocative)
aite (accusative singular)
aite (accusative dual)
aitiu (accusative plural)
aiti (genitive singular)
aite (dual genitive)
aite (genitive plural)
aitiu (dative singular)
aitib (dative dual)
aitib (dative plural)
aite (mutation mutation-radical)
n-aite (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: oide

Manx: gedjey

Scottish Gaelic: oide

From Old Irish aite, from Proto-Celtic *attyos, related to Welsh tâd, Breton tat. From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), ultimately a nursery word. The d in Modern Irish oide may be due to the influence of English daddy.

onomatopoeic

nursery word


rí

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rí m (genitive ríg, nominative plural ríg)

Irish: rí

Manx: ree

Scottish Gaelic: rìgh

From Old Irish rí, from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”), which is derived from *h₃reǵ-.

der

Boí rí amra for Laignib, .i. Mac Dathó a ainm.

c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:

There was a wonderful king over the Leinstermen; Mac Dathó was his name.


ó

From Old Irish áu, from Proto-Celtic *ausos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws; cognate with English ear and Latin auris.


fés

Irish: féas (“coarse hair, beard”)

fés (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟés (lenition mutation)
fés (mutation mutation-nasal)

No exact Celtic cognates, but seemingly related to find (“head hair”), which is hypothetically from Proto-Celtic *wendom (“(single) hair”); thus, from Proto-Celtic *wenso-, from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ-so- (“~facial hair”), from the root *wendʰ-, and distantly cognate with Old Prussian wanso (“first beard”), Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ (“moustache”), Ancient Greek ἴονθος (íonthos, “downy hair, first beard; root of hair; eruption on the face, acne”) (if earlier *ϝί-ϝονθος (*wí-wonthos)), and the first element of Old High German wint-brāwa, Middle Dutch wint-brauwe (“eyelash”) (Proto-West Germanic *windabrāwu).


frac

frac (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟrac (lenition mutation)
frac (mutation mutation-nasal)

From Proto-Celtic *wrakkā, probably related to *grúac (“hair”); for similar sense development, see Scottish Gaelic gruagach (“maiden, woman”), which evolved from gruag, as unmarried women did not cover their hair.
Compare Welsh gwraig and Breton gwreg.


cích

Irish: cíoch

Manx: keeagh

Scottish Gaelic: cìoch

cích (mutation mutation-radical)
chích (lenition mutation)
cích (mutation mutation-nasal)

From Old Irish cích, from Proto-Celtic *kīkos (compare Welsh cig (“meat”)).


rígan

Irish: ríon, banríon

Manx: rein, benrein

desc

Scottish Gaelic: rìghinn, banrìghinn, rìbhinn

From Old Irish rígain, from Proto-Celtic *rīganī.


ócán

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ócán m (genitive ógáin, nominative plural ógáin)

ógáin (genitive)
ógáin (nominative plural)

Manx: aegan

Scottish Gaelic: ògan


grúac

Irish: gruaig

Manx: gruag

Scottish Gaelic: gruag

→ Faroese: grúkur

From Proto-Celtic *grunkā, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to twist, bend”), the source of Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“crooked”).


fésócach

Irish: féasógach

Manx: faasaagagh

Scottish Gaelic: feusagach

fésócach (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟésócach (lenition mutation)
fésócach (mutation mutation-nasal)


fésóc

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fésóc f (genitive fésóice, nominative plural fésóca)

fésóice (genitive)
fésóca (nominative plural)
fésóc (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟésóc (lenition mutation)
fésóc (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: féasóg

Manx: faasaag

Scottish Gaelic: feusag

From fés (“lip; body hair”) + -óc (diminutive suffix).


prinnsa

Irish: prionsa

Scottish Gaelic: prionnsa

prinnsa (mutation mutation-radical)
phrinnsa (mutation mutation-nasal)
or unchanged (mutation mutation-nasal)
prinnsa (mutation)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin princeps.


maccoím

Irish: macaomh

→ Middle Welsh: makwyf

Welsh: macwy

maccoím (mutation mutation-radical)
maccoím (lenition mutation)

From Old Irish macc coím. By surface analysis, macc (“boy”) + cóem (“dear, gentle”).


sabdán

Irish: sabhdán

sabdán (mutation mutation-radical)
ṡabdán (lenition mutation)

From Middle French sultan (assimilated to the suffix -án), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan) and/or Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).


derbsiur

derbṡiur (canonical feminine)
derbṡiur (nominative singular)
derbṡiair (dual nominative)
derbṡethir (nominative plural)
derbṡiur (singular vocative)
derbṡiair (dual vocative)
derbṡethra (plural vocative)
derbṡiair (accusative singular)
derbṡiair (accusative dual)
derbṡethra (accusative plural)
derbṡethar (genitive singular)
derbṡethar (dual genitive)
derbṡethar (genitive plural)
derbṡiair (dative singular)
derbṡethraib (dative dual)
derbṡethraib (dative plural)
derbṡiur (mutation mutation-radical)
derbṡiur (lenition mutation)
later /ɣ-/ (lenition mutation)
later /ɣʲ-/ (lenition mutation)
nderbṡiur (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: deirfiúr


cenn

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cenn m (genitive cinn, plural cenna or cinn)

cinn (genitive)
cenna (plural)
cinn (plural)
cenn (mutation mutation-radical)
chenn (lenition mutation)
cenn (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: ceann

Manx: kione

Scottish Gaelic: ceann

From Old Irish cenn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.


barún

barún m (genitive barúin or barún, nominative plural barúin)

barúin (genitive)
barún (genitive)
barúin (nominative plural)

Irish: barún

Borrowed from Old French baron, from Latin barōnem.


beóir

Irish: beoir

beóir (mutation mutation-radical)
beóir (lenition mutation)
mbeóir (mutation mutation-nasal)


derbchomalta

derbchomalta (mutation mutation-radical)
derbchomalta (lenition mutation)
later /ɣ-/ (lenition mutation)
later /ɣʲ-/ (lenition mutation)
nderbchomalta (mutation mutation-nasal)


clíamain

clémna (genitive)
clíamain (mutation mutation-radical)
chlíamain (lenition mutation)
clíamain (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: cliamhain

Manx: cleuin

Scottish Gaelic: cliamhainn


búar

Irish: buar

búar (mutation mutation-radical)
búar (lenition mutation)
mbúar (mutation mutation-nasal)


Medb

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Irish: Méabh, Meadhbh, Méadhbh (superseded), Méibh
→ English: Maeve

Medb (mutation mutation-radical)
Medb (lenition mutation)

From Proto-Celtic *medwā, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. Compare Middle Irish medb (“intoxicating”), from Proto-Celtic *medwos.

Tancas o Ailill ocus o Meidb do chungid in chon.

People were sent from Ailill and from Medb to ask for the dog.

a female given name, equivalent to English Maeve, born notably by the queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle