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Where does “-ú” come from?

-ú (Irish) comes from Old Irish -ugud, from Old Irish -ad, from Proto-Celtic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

-ú (Irish): Regular verbal noun of second-conjugation verbs,...

Definitions

  1. Regular verbal noun of second-conjugation verbs,...

Ancestry of “-ú”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irish-ugud—
2Old Irish-adsuffix forming verbal nouns; suffix forming the...
3Proto-Celtic-tusForms action nouns from verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “-ú”

  • athrú
  • teibiú
  • mí-ordú
  • úrú
  • láithreánú
  • néarúlú
  • lártheifneoiriú
  • análú
  • ordú
  • scrúdpháipéar
  • ceathrachadú
  • aonú
  • buanordú
  • bunú
  • cluas-scrúdú
  • scrúdú
  • frithordú
  • tarlú
  • tarlaigh
  • anordú
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →