Editing Lugus (section)

==Etymology==
The etymology of Lugus's name has been the subject of repeated conjecture, but no single etymology has gained wide acceptance.<ref name=Delamarre/>{{rp|211}}

The most commonly repeated etymology derives the name from [[proto-Indo-European]] *{{wikt-lang|ine-x-proto|lewk-|leuk-}} ("to shine"). This etymology is closely tied to proposals to identify Lugus as a [[solar god]]. However, Garrett Olmsted has pointed out that this derivation poses phonological difficulties. [[Proto-Celtic]] {{lang|cel-x-proto|lug-}} cannot develop from proto-Indo-European {{lang|ine-x-proto|leuk-}}, according to the known [[Proto-Celtic language#Sound changes from Proto-Indo-European|sound changes between the two languages]].<ref name=Ovist/>{{rp|181–183}} {{ill|Carlos Jordán Cólera|ca|Carlos Benjamín Jordán Cólera}} has noted that this root would result in Irish {{lang|mga|Luch}}, rather than the attested Irish {{lang|mga|Lugh}}.<ref name=JordanColera>{{cite journal |url=https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/26/22/40beltranetal.pdf |title=Novedades epigráficas en Peñalba de Villastar (Teruel) |last1=Jordán Cólera |first1=Carlos |last2=Marco Simón |first2=Francisco |last3=Beltrán Lloris |first3=Francisco |journal=Paleohispánica |volume=5 |pages=911–956 }}</ref>{{rp|918}}

{{ill|Heinrich Wagner (linguist)|de|Heinrich Wagner (Linguist)|lt=Heinrich Wagner}} and [[Erich Hamp]] have proposed that the name derives from a proto-Celtic word meaning "oath" (either {{lang|cel-x-proto|lugiom}} or {{lang|cel-x-proto|leugh-}}). [[John T. Koch]] has taken this hypothesis up, and proposed that the early Irish oath ''[[tongu do dia toinges mo thúath]]'' is a suppressed oath to Lugus.<ref name=Koch>{{cite journal |last=Koch |first=John Thomas |title=Further to ''tongu do dia toinges mo thuath'', &c. |journal=Études Celtiques |volume=29 |date=1992 |pages=249–261 |doi=10.3406/ecelt.1992.2008 }}</ref>{{rp|252}}<ref name=Olmsted/>{{rp|244}} [[A. G. van Hamel]] and Maier proposed a derivation from proto-Celtic {{lang|cel-x-proto|lugus}} ("lynx"), perhaps used allusively to mean "warrior", but an article by [[John Carey (Celticist)|John Carey]] found the evidence for the existence of such a word in proto-Celtic lacking.<ref>{{cite book |last=Carey |first=John |date=2010 |chapter=Celtic ''*lugus'' "lynx": A Phantom Big Cat? |title=Celtic Language, Law and Letters: Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica |editor-first=F. |editor-last=Josephson |series=Meijerbergs Arkiv för Svensk Ordforskning |location=Göteborg |pages=151–167 }}</ref><ref name=Watson>{{cite book |title=Religious Acculturation and Assimilation in Belgic Gaul and Aquitania from the Roman Conquest until the End of the Second Century CE |url=https://archive.org/details/bar-international-series-alasdair-watson-religious-acculturation-and-assimilatio |last=Watson |first=Alasdair |date=2007 |publisher=BAR Publishing |location=Oxford |doi=10.30861/9781407300368 |isbn=978-1-4073-0036-8 }}</ref>{{rp|66}} Other etymologies derive "Lugus" from the name of the [[Norse god]] [[Loki]],<ref name=Delamarre/>{{rp|211}} proto-Celtic {{lang|cel-x-proto|luc-}} ("mouse" or "rat"),<ref name=Coe>{{cite book |last=Coe |first=Paula Powers |chapter=Manwydan's Set and Other Iconographic Riffs |title=Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford |editor1-first=Joseph Falaky |editor1-last=Nagy |editor2-last=Jones |editor2-first=Leslie Ellen |url=https://archive.org/details/heroicpoetspoeti0000unse |url-access=registration |date=2005 |location=Dublin |publisher=Four Courts Press |pages=42–54 |isbn=978-1-85182-849-4 }}</ref> and [[Gaulish language|Gaulish]] {{lang|xtg|lougos}} ("raven").<ref name=deVries/>{{rp|53}}