Re: [tied] Ogme/Ogma's etymology

From: Christopher Gwinn
Message: 4334
Date: 2000-10-13

Celtic ou- became Welsh w- in this instance.
Of course, there is the outside chance that Welsh wy is related after all to Irish og (gen. oge), for if the root was *ogion (and not Pokorny's *ouion), this would produce an Old Welsh *eui which could lead to the spelling wy (just as *Ogm-io became Old Welsh Eu(u)-ydd - note that the -m- is lenited in Welsh to a -u- which is coalesced with the -u- in Eu- from *Og-).
-C. Gwinn