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Lugus - Etymology | | Lugus - Etymology: Encyclopedia II - Lugus - Etymology | | Lugus's name has been interpreted as deriving from the Indo-European root *leuk-, light, and he has long been considered a sun god. This etymology is problematic because Proto-Indo-European *k did not under any known circumstances become *g- in Proto-Celtic, but remained *k. The direct descendent of the Proto-Indo-European root *leuk- (white light) in Proto-Celtic is *leuk- as in the name of the Celtic lightning god Leucetios. So if one applies the principles of Occam's razor, *leuk- is ...
See also:Lugus, Lugus - Gaulish Mercury, Lugus - Iconography, Lugus - Triplism, Lugus - Sacred Sites, Lugus - Continuity in later Celtic narratives, Lugus - Foreign Parallels, Lugus - Etymology, Lugus - Survival of the name in toponyms, Lugus - Bibliography | | | Lugus, Lugus - Bibliography, Lugus - Continuity in later Celtic narratives, Lugus - Etymology, Lugus - Foreign Parallels, Lugus - Gaulish Mercury, Lugus - Iconography, Lugus - Sacred Sites, Lugus - Survival of the name in toponyms, Lugus - Triplism | | |
| | | Lugus: Encyclopedia II - Lugus - Etymology
Lugus - Etymology
Lugus's name has been interpreted as deriving from the Indo-European root *leuk-, light, and he has long been considered a sun god. This etymology is problematic because Proto-Indo-European *k did not under any known circumstances become *g- in Proto-Celtic, but remained *k. The direct descendent of the Proto-Indo-European root *leuk- (white light) in Proto-Celtic is *leuk- as in the name of the Celtic lightning god Leucetios. So if one applies the principles of Occam's razor, *leuk- is not the most plausible etymology (though some have suggested that PIE *leuk had a variant form *leug-, which could indeed produce a Common Celtic *lug-).
The contemporary compilation of etymological lexica at the universities of Leiden and Wales ([1] [2] )are providing greater insight into the proto-linguistics of Celtic words. These lexica suggest that this name is derived from Proto-Celtic *Lug-u-s, but this Proto-Celtic lexeme exhibits great ambiguity in its semantics both in Proto-Celtic and in Proto-Indo-European.
The Proto-Celtic lexeme *Lug-u-s may be related to the initial morpheme in the Proto-Celtic *lug-rā moon (sometimes proposed as the proto-form behind Welsh lloer, though Eric Hamp suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic *lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus [earlier *lus-idus] "pale yellow"). Another possibility is Proto-Indo-European *leug- meaning blackness, dimness, darkness (thought by Pokorny to be the root of the ill-attested Gaulish word lugos raven), or *leug- swamp, peat-bog. Proto-Celtic *Lug-u-s may equally be related to Proto-Celtic *lug- meaning "oath, pledging, assurance" on the one hand and "deceive" on the other (derived from Proto-Indo-European *leugh- avowal, deception).
The name may also be related to Old Irish lug "lynx", perhaps indicating the existance of a Proto-Celtic root that denoted an animal with "shining eyes", from PIE *leuk- "to shine" (compare Greek lunx "lynx", perhaps from a zero-grade form *luk- with infixed nasal).
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