Given name · also Primitive Irish
Fíachrai
“fighting king”
Fíachrai shares an earlier linguistic root with ᚃᚓᚊᚏᚓᚊ. One interpretation is “fighting king.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fíachrai shares an earlier linguistic root with ᚃᚓᚊᚏᚓᚊ. One interpretation is “fighting king.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Fíachrai possibly comes from Primitive Irish, and ultimately from Proto-Celtic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Possibly from Primitive Irish ᚃᚓᚊᚏᚓᚊ, from Proto-Celtic *Weikorīxs, built from Old Irish fichid (“to fight”) + rí (“king”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fíachrai’s family of names
In Old Irish usage, Fíachrai shares a linguistic root with the Primitive Irish form ᚃᚓᚊᚏᚓᚊ. In Old Irish usage, Fíachrai continues an earlier form in ᚃᚓᚊᚏᚓᚊ. In Old Irish usage, Fíachrai has a later derivative in Fiachra.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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