Etymology

Lugh

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Today it means: A pre-Christian Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past: the son of Cian and Ethniu. Full definition →

Irish Lugh ← Old Irish Lug ← pgl ᚂᚒᚌᚐ
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*Lugus
  2. pgl · derived fromᚂᚒᚌᚐ
  3. Old Irish · derived fromLug
  4. Irish · borrowed fromLugh
  5. English todayLugh

Borrowed from Irish Lugh, from Old Irish Lug, from Primitive Irish ᚂᚒᚌᚐ (luga), from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Celtic*Lugus all →

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