SOURCE 01supportsscholarly reference
Celtic, chapter 9 of The Indo-European Language Family
Publishes the *rīx-s to rí branch.
Celtic chapter, p. 138- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Anders Richardt Jørgensen
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- Cambridge University Press
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 259
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Did Old Irish rí directly become English rich?
No. They are related through different Celtic formations: rí continues *rīx-s, while rich travels through the derivative *rīg-yo- borrowed into Germanic.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 259
rí
/riː/ · noun
The Old Irish word for a king, with genitive ríg, inherited from Proto-Celtic *rīx-s in the Indo-European king branch.
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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
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SOURCE 02supportsscholarly reference
Indo-European Root reg-
Publishes the distinct rich branch.
reg-, Celtic *rīg-yo- to Germanic *rīkja- and rich- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- Cambridge supplies the rí branch; the American Heritage root appendix supplies the rich borrowing route.
The paths meet at the king grade without a false rí-to-rich edge.