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Origin of the name DOMNU.
Etymology of the name DOMNU.
Meaning of the baby name DOMNU.
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DOMNU. Ancient
Celtic name, possibly meaning "goddess of the deep." But
it may be masculine. See note below. And see Dumno
and Devon.
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The conjectural interpretation offered to you of the term Fir Bolg
("a bag-man") may be said to derive some confirmation from the
name of their allies the Fir Domnann. Now Domnann should be the
genitive of a name making in the nominative Domnu or Domna; and construing
Dé Domnann in the same way was
Dé Danann, I take Domnu to have been the name of a goddess and not
of a god. Put it back into what must have been its early form, and
you will have a nominative Dumnu and a genitive Dumnonos, implying a
stem Dumnon: form from the latter an adjective Dumnonios, you will then
have as its plural Dumnonii, the attested name of two peoples of Roman
Britain, situated respectively by the Severn Sea and the Firth of
Forth. The name meant a people who had something to do with Domnu,
and that something may have been a claim to be the descendants or the
favourite people of Domnu; while Domnu's own name, derived from the same
origin as the Celtic words for "deep," probably meant the
goddess of the deep. Thus two historical peoples and one mythic
had their names from this goddess, of whom nothing is otherwise known
except that she was the mother of Indech, one of the leaders of the
Fomori, and that several waters were called after her, such as Inver
Domnann or Broadhaven, in the county of Sligo, and Malahide Bay, near
Dublin (p. 583). In this last respect she resembled the Dee or
Aerven, as she may have done in others likewise. (The Hibbert
Lectures, Trust, 1888)
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