Editing Mesgegra (section)

== Name ==

Mes-gegra is mentioned in ''[[Cormac's glossary]]'', only to state that ''Mes'' signifies 'edge' or 'blade'.<ref name=odonovan-cormacs-gl/><ref name=dobbs/>{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|This indicates that [[Cormac mac Cuilennáin]] (d. 908) knew about Mes-gegra and perhaps the Ulster cycle story surrounding him.<ref name=kelleher/>}}

Mes-gegra shared this Mes- prefix with his siblings and father.{{sfnp|Buttimer|1982|p=61}}<ref name=dobbs/>

Margaret E. Dobbs guesses that Mesgegra would have originally meant "warrior (or sword) of Cecra".<ref name=dobbs/> In Ancient [[Chaldea]], "Mes-" meaning "hero or champions" appears in the roster of kings, and this Chaldean word derived from [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] ''mas'' 'cut, divide' or ''mâsu'' 'warrior'. Dobbs ventured that the Irish Mes- name convention could have been borrowed from that far region.<ref name=dobbs/>