abacc
Middle Irish
Etymology
Associated by Matasović with Middle Welsh afanc (“dwarf; beaver”), from Proto-Celtic *abankos (“beaver”), a derivative of *abū (“river”).[1] However, the sense ‘beaver’ is unattested in Goidelic, and Proto-Celtic *nk should give Goidelic /ɡ/, not /k/.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈavək/
Noun
abacc m
- dwarf
Descendants
- Irish: abhac
Mutation
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| abacc | unchanged | n-abacc |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 24
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “abacc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language