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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mogus

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

Cognate with the formally identical Proto-Germanic *maguz (“boy; servant”), apparently via Proto-Indo-European *mogʰus (“young person; boy-servant?”). Compare also Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬖𐬀𐬬𐬀 (maγava, “unmarried”). Matasović notes that the /a/-vocalism of Gaulish Magu- is unexplained.[1]

Noun

*mogus m[1]

  1. (male) servant
  2. (male) youth, boy

Declension
Masculine/feminine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *mogus *mogū *mogowes
vocative *mogu *mogū *mogūs
accusative *mogum *mogū *mogums
genitive *mogous *mogous *mogowom
dative *mogou *mogubom *mogubos
locative *? *? *?
instrumental *mogū *mogubim *mogubis

Descendants
  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Old Breton: mauu (“youth; servant”)
      • Middle Breton: mau
        • Breton: maw (“boy”)
    • Old Cornish:
    • ⇒ Middle Welsh: meu-dwy (“servant of God; hermit”)
      • Welsh: meudwy (“hermit”)
  • Gaulish: *mogus
    • ⇒ Gaulish: *Mogurīx ~ *Magurīx
      • → Latin: Magurix
    • ⇒? Gaulish: Moguntia (alternatively from *mogonts)
      • → Latin: Maguntia
      • →⇒ Latin: Mogontiacum (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Irish: mug (“male servant, serf, bondman”)

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mogu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
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