Borrowed from Greek. Further etymology unsettled. Older sources believed the word was "a rare wild feline name with a solid IE etymology" (NEI), but this view has been mostly abandoned. "Non-IE, and probably a loan from a Eur. substrate language" (RB). "A European word for 'lynx' (GK). "An animal designation belonging to the European substratum, *lu(n)ḱ/ģ-(n)-... the association with 'shine, light' (an animal with shining eyes or a shining fur) is folk-etymological" (HKM). "All potential cognates show some kind of irregular sound correspondence: the laryngeal of Baltic, the r of Slavic, the n of Greek, the g of Irish. Perhaps these irregularities result from multiple tabooistic distortions. The alternative is to assume repeated borrowing from a non-Indo-European language (or languages)." (GK)
Robert Farren. Native speaker of English. Conductor of LUNDIC project-internal analysis of Indo-European culture data.
[RF]
Source
An Stòr-dàta Briathrachais Gàidhlig: http://www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/sbg/lorg.php
[AFB]
Source
Robert Beekes (with the assistance of Lucien van Beek). Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill. Brill Online.
[RB]
Source
Dictionary of the Irish language: based mainly on old and middle Irish materials. (1913-1976). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Online at: http://edil.qub.ac.uk/dictionary/search.php
[EDIL]
Source
Guus Kroonen. Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill. Brill Online.
[GK]
Source
Hrach K. Martirosyan. Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill. Brill Online.
[HKM]
Source
Houaiss, Antônio & MS Villar. 2001. Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto António Houaiss.
[DH]
Source
Simpson, J., & Weiner, E. S. 1989. Oxford English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
[OED]
Source
Trésors de la langue francaise informatisées. Centre national de ressources techniques et lexiques. http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/
[TLF]
Source
DEX online (2004-2015). Dicționare ale limbii române. https://dexonline.ro/
[DEX]
Source
Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (2007-2010). De Geïntegreerde Taalbank [online]. Available at: http://gtb.inl.nl/
[GTB]
Source
Jehan Lagadec. 1867. Le Catholicon de Iehan de Lagadeuc : dictionnaire breton, français et latin publié par R. F. Le Men d'après l'édition de Me Auffret de Quoetqueveran. Lorient: Ed. Corfmat.
[CAT]
Source
De Bhaldraithe, Tomás. 1959. English-Irish dictionary: with terminological additions and corrections. Dublin: An Gúm.
[DBH]
Source
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: A Dictionary of the Welsh Language. http://welsh-dictionary.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html
[GPC]
Source
Nocentini, Alberto (2010). L'etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana. 1. ed. Milano: Le Monnier
[NEI]
Source
Robert Farren, PIE culture words collection, 2017
[Farren (2017)]
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