Editing Ogmios (section)

==Etymology==
[[Georges Dottin]], [[Christian-Joseph Guyonvarc'h]] and {{ill|Françoise Le Roux|fr}} have proposed to derive the god's name derives from Greek {{wikt-lang|grc|ὄγμος}} ({{transliteration|grc|ógmos}}, "[[furrow]], path").<ref name=Guyonvarch>{{cite journal |first=Christian-Joseph |last=Guyonvarc'h |title=Notes d'étymologie et de lexicographie gauloises et celtiques 14. Gaulois OGMIOS, irlandais OGMA, ogam. |journal=Ogam |volume=12 |date=1960 |pages=47–49 |url=https://archive.org/details/ogam_1960_12/page/47 }}</ref><ref name=LeRoux>{{cite journal |first=Françoise |last=Le Roux |title=Le dieu celtique aux liens: De l'Ogmios de Lucain à l'Ogmios de Dürer |url=https://archive.org/details/ogam_1960_12/page/209 |journal=Ogam |volume=12 |date=1960 |pages=209–234, pl. XXVII–XXIX }}</ref>{{rp|233}} Though Lucian tell us that Ogmios is the name of the god "in their native tongue", Guyonvarc'h and Le Roux believe it is possible the name may have been borrowed by Gaulish speakers from Greek in the parts of Gaul where Greek was widely spoken (such as [[Massalia]]). [[Jan de Vries (philologist)|Jan de Vries]] is sceptical of this possibility.<ref name=Hofeneder3>{{cite book |title=Die Religion der Kelten in den antiken literarischen Zeugnissen |volume=3 |last=Hofeneder |first=Andreas |date=2011 |location=Wien |publisher=Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |url=https://archive.org/details/9783700169970-gesamt-2 }}</ref>{{rp|93}}<ref name=deVries>{{cite book |last=de Vries |first=Jan |title=Keltische Religion |date=1961 |url=https://archive.org/details/keltischereligio0000vrie |url-access=registration |location=Stuttgart |publisher=W. Kohlhammer }}</ref>{{rp|70}} The Greek word {{lang|grc|ὄγμος}} seems to have had a connotation of leadership, which agrees with the iconography Lucian describes.<ref name=deVries/>{{rp|70}} The ''[[Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon]]'' notes the similarity with {{lang|grc|ἐπόγμιος}} ({{transliteration|grc|epógmios}}, "ruling over the furrows"), an epithet of the Greek god [[Demeter]].<ref name=NIL>{{cite book|last1=Wodtko|first1=Dagmar S.|last2=Irslinger|first2=Britta|last3=Schneider|first3=Carolin|title=Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon|publisher=Universitätsverlag Winter |location=Heidelberg |year=2008 |title-link=Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon}}</ref>{{rp|268}}
 
Celtic etymologies of the theonym have also been given. The potential existence of a reflex of the god's name in Irish mythology (Ogma, discussed below) has been taken to count in favour of such an etymology.<ref name=Duval>{{cite book |title=Les Dieux de la Gaule |publisher=Payot |date=1976 |edition=2 |location=Paris |last=Duval |first=Paul-Marie }}</ref>{{rp|81}}<ref name=Martin>{{cite journal |last=Martin |first=Josef |date=1946 |title=Ogmios |journal=Würzburger Jahrbücher |volume=1 |pages=359–399 |doi=10.11588/wja.1946.2.23118 }}</ref>{{rp|363}} [[Xavier Delamarre]] suggests that Ogmios is a reflex (through [[proto-Celtic]]) of [[proto-Indo-European]] *{{wikt-lang|ine-x-proto|h₂óǵmos}} ("way"), derived from the [[Proto-Indo-European root|PIE verbal root]] *{{wikt-lang|ine-x-proto|h₂eǵ-}} ("to drive"). He associates with theonym with the meaning of "a leader along a path".<ref name=Delamarre/>{{rp|239}} [[Pierre-Yves Lambert]] suggested that Ogmios was a reflex of the proto-Celtic {{lang|cel-x-proto|oug-}} ("to sew").<ref name=Delamarre>{{cite book|first=Xavier |last=Delamarre |title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental |date=2003 |location=Paris |edition=2nd |publisher=Éditions Errance }}</ref>{{rp|239}}