úa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ua"

North Marquesan

Numeral

úa

1. (cardinal) two

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Old Irish

Etymology 1

From older aue, from Primitive Irish ᚐᚃᚔ (avi), from Proto-Celtic *awyos (perhaps compare Welsh wyr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos. Cognate with Old Prussian awis, Latin avus, Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 (awo) and Old Armenian հաւ (haw).

Noun

úa m

1. grandson
2. descendant

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: ó, ua
• Manx: oe
• Scottish Gaelic: ogha

Etymology 2

Contested.

• From Proto-Celtic *awa (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away, down”). Cognate with Latin au-, Sanskrit अव (ava, “down”), Old Church Slavonic оу- (u-).
• From Proto-Celtic *aɸu (“away”), from *apó/*h₂epó (“away”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó), Sanskrit अप (ápa, “away, off”), Latin ab (“from”), Old Church Slavonic по (po), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af).

Preposition

úa

1. from, of

Alternative forms

• ó

Descendants

• Irish: ó
• Scottish Gaelic: bho

References

• “úa, óa, ó” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 50

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South Marquesan

Numeral

úa

1. (cardinal) two