ᚕᚑᚔ

Primitive Irish
FWOTD – 10 April 2019

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *koi, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoy, locative singular of the deictic pronoun *ḱey.

Adverb

ᚕᚑᚔ (koi)

  1. here (with a verb like “lies” or “is buried” implied)
    • BLTAG/2/1 at the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project
      ᚛ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ ᚔᚐᚏᚔ ᚕᚑᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ ᚋᚒᚉᚉᚑᚔ ᚇᚑᚃᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ᚜
      maqqi iari koi maqqi muccoi dovvinias
      The son of Iar [lies] here, son of the tribe of Dovinias
    • BLTAG/9/1
      ᚛ᚅᚓᚈᚈᚐᚂᚐᚋᚔᚅᚐᚉᚉᚐ ᚕᚑᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ ᚋᚒᚉᚑᚔ ᚇᚑᚃ[···
      nettalaminacca koi maqqi mucoi dov[...
      Netta-Laminacca [lies] here, son of the tribe of Dov[inias]

Usage notes

This is a formula word, uniquely spelled with the supplementary character ᚕ (k). It seems to be equivalent to the Latin formula hic iacet (“here lies”).

References
  • Eska, Joseph F. (1990). “The deictic pronomial ḱey in Celtic”. Celtica 21:153–55.
  • McManus, Damian (1991). A Guide to Ogam, Maynooth Monographs 4. Maynooth: An Sagart, p. 81. →ISBN.
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