Re: [tied] Ogme/Ogma's etymology

From: Christopher Gwinn
Message: 4315
Date: 2000-10-13

>Celtic has og (Irish) and wy (Welsh) for "egg"...what's the Proto-Celtic form?
 
Well, for Brythonic, the form is reconstructed as *ouion - but leaves us no clue as to where the Irish form comes from (perhaps some kind of early Germanic borrowing??)
 
-C. Gwinn

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