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Where does “éigid” come from?
éigid (Middle Irish) comes from Old Irish éigid, from Proto-Celtic *yeigeti — to scream, cry out.
Ancestry of “éigid”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Irish
éigid
to cry out, to scream in distress
2
Proto-Celtic
*yeigeti
to scream, cry out
Words derived from “éigid”
eigh
eigh-bheinn
eigh-shruth
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