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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/tigernos
Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Possibly from *tiger (“raid”) + *-īnos. The former could be from *tēgeti (“to go”).[1]
Noun
*tigernos m[1][2]
- lord, ruler
Inflection
Masculine o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *tigernos | *tigernou | *tigernoi |
vocative | *tigerne | *tigernou | *tigernūs |
accusative | *tigernom | *tigernou | *tigernoms |
genitive | *tigernī | *tigernous | *tigernom |
dative | *tigernūi | *tigernobom | *tigernobos |
locative | *tigernei | *? | *? |
instrumental | *tigernū | *tigernobim | *tigernūis |
Derived terms
- *Katutigernos
- *Tigernomaglos
- *Uɸortigernos
- *tigernākos
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *tɨɣern
- Old Breton: *tiarn, *tiern
- Middle Breton: tiern
- Breton: tiern
- Middle Breton: tiern
- Old Welsh: *tigern
- Middle Welsh: teern, teyrn
- Welsh: teyrn
- Middle Welsh: teern, teyrn
- Old Breton: *tiarn, *tiern
- Primitive Irish: ᚈᚔᚌᚔᚏᚅ (tigirn)
- Old Irish: tigern
- → tigernae
- Middle Irish: tigerna
- Irish: tiarna
- Manx: çhiarn
- Scottish Gaelic: tighearna
- Middle Irish: tigerna
- → tigernae
- Old Irish: tigern
- Gaulish: *tigernos[3]
- ⇒ Latin: Castrum Tigernum
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “tigerno”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 378-379
- Koch, John (2004), “*tigerno-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 289
- Delamarre, Xavier (2003), “tigerno-”, 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 296