nauna

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• nóine

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nāunyā, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“to die, to lack”).

Noun

nauna f

1. famine

Descendants

• Middle Irish: núna

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “núna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language