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Did Latin rēx produce Old Irish rí or Gaulish -rīx?

No. The reviewed comparative sources treat the Latin and Celtic forms as inherited cognates in separate Italic and Celtic branches; Celtic raises inherited *ē to *ī.

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rēx

/reːks/ · noun

The Latin third-declension noun for a king, ruler, chief, or leader, cited as rēx, rēgis and built on the bound stem rēg-.

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Old Irish Online: Introduction

Compares inherited Celtic ī with Latin ē in rēx and rēgis.

Old Irish introduction, example 1a
AUTHOR / EDITOR
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel and University of Texas Linguistics Research Center Editors
YEAR
Not recorded
PUBLISHER
University of Texas at Austin
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THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.

CONFIDENCE
established
STATUS
resolved
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
The Texas Old Irish introduction compares rí, ríg, Gaulish -rix, rēx, and rēgis; Cambridge reconstructs the Celtic branch.
RESOLUTION NOTE

The graph joins the forms at reconstructed ancestry and draws no Latin-to-Celtic borrowing edge.

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