The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ḱwṓ
- Proto-Celtic · derived from*kū“dog”
- pgl · derived fromᚉᚑᚅᚐᚅᚅ
- Middle Irish · derived fromConán
- Irish · borrowed fromConán
- English todayConan
From Irish Conán, from Middle Irish Conán, from Primitive Irish ᚉᚑᚅᚐᚅᚅ (conann), a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*ḱwṓ all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.