Re: [tied] Ogme/Ogma's etymology

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 4326
Date: 2000-10-13

Celtic o > Welsh wy ? Or o + i-umlaut?
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From: Christopher Gwinn
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ogme/Ogma's etymology

>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