North Marquesan

Numeral

úa

1. (cardinal) two

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From older aue, from Primitive Irish ᚐᚃᚔ ‎(avi), from Proto-Celtic *awyos (perhaps compare Welsh wyr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos. Cognate with Old Prussian awis, Latin avus, Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 ‎(awo) and Old Armenian հաւ ‎(haw).

Noun

úa m

1. grandson
2. descendant

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: ó, ua
• Manx: oe
• Scottish Gaelic: ogha

Etymology 2

Contested.

• From Proto-Celtic *awa ‎(“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew ‎(“away, down”). Cognate with Latin au-, Sanskrit अव ‎(ava, “down”), Old Church Slavonic оу- ‎(u-).
• From Proto-Celtic *aɸu ‎(“away”), from *apó/*h₂epó ‎(“away”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀπό ‎(apó), Sanskrit अप ‎(ápa, “away, off”), Latin ab ‎(“from”), Old Church Slavonic по ‎(po), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 ‎(af).

Preposition

úa

1. from, of

Alternative forms

• ó

Descendants

• Irish: ó
• Scottish Gaelic: bho

References

• “úa, óa, ó” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 50

South Marquesan

Numeral

úa

1. (cardinal) two