Reconstruction:Gaulish/bodwa
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Gaulish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Affirmed indirectly by immediately derived personal names Bodua in Gaulish and Boduia presumably in Latin and derived itself from Proto-Celtic *bodwo- (“fighting”).[1] The ascertainment and development of its semantics is partly difficult but the relation to the Irish raven battle goddess Badb, with Old Irish badb being an evident and sufficiently early cognate, can not be discarded anyways. The proper noun *Catubodua of the corresponding Gaulish deity is relatable but was derived separately from Proto-Celtic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*bodwa f
- A female fighter.
- (mythology) A female raven or crow related to war.
- (uncommon, by extension) A female raven or crow.
Declension
[edit] declension of Gaulish/bodwa (Transalpine)
References
[edit]- ^ Koch, John (2019), Common Ground and Progress on the Celtic of the South-Western Inscriptions, Aberystwyth: Wales University, p. 43
- "bodua" in Delamarre, Xavier (2003), Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise - Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, Paris: Errance