Note 347 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Stokes (Urkeltischer Sprachschatz, 198) and Rhŷs seek a Celtic etymology for Magonus. Rhŷs treats it as a derivation from Goidelic magus (whence the Irish mug, “servant”), meaning perhaps originally a “boy.”
Reading edition
Stokes (Urkeltischer Sprachschatz, 198) and Rhŷs seek a Celtic etymology for Magonus. Rhŷs treats it as a derivation from Goidelic magus (whence the Irish mug, “servant”), meaning perhaps originally a “boy.”