Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. · A priest or mage who uses magic based on nature or trees.
Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally either “oak-knower” or “firm knower, great sage”), from either Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) or *drew- (“solid, firm, hard”) and *weyd- (“to see, to have knowledge”) (whence also English wizard; Proto-Slavic *vědьma (> Russian ве́дьма (védʹma))). The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*weyd-ine-pro
- Borrowed-form mentiondruidefr
- Derivation mentionDruidaela
- Derivation mention*druwitscel-gau
- Derivation mention*druwitscel-pro
- Derivation mention*dóruine-pro
- Cognate mentionwizarden
- Cognate mention*vědьmasla-pro
- Cognate mentionве́дьмаru
- Cognate mentiondruísga
- Cognate mentiondrywcy
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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