Editing Cernunnos (section)

===Etymology===
The earliest etymology, proposed by [[Alfred Holder]], connected Cernunnos's name with a Celtic word for horn, a [[reflex (linguistics)|reflex]] of [[proto-Indo-European]] *{{wikt-lang|ine-x-proto|ḱerh₂-}} ("horn, hoof"). Hence, Holder analysed the name as "The Horned God". This etymology has the advantage of a close link with Cernunnos's iconography. However, [[Ernst Windisch]] and [[Leo Weisgerber]] pointed out that [[Indo-European ablaut|ablaut form]] of the proto-Indo-European root in Celtic is {{lang|cel-x-proto|karno}}{{efn|The presence of this ablaut form in proto-Celtic is attested by two Gaulish words for trumpets ({{lang|xtg|karnon}} and ''[[karnyx]]''), [[Middle Welsh]] {{lang|wlm|carn}} ("hoof"),  [[Old Breton]] {{lang|obt|carn}} ("horse's hoof)", and perhaps [[Old Irish]] {{lang|sga|cruë}} ("hoof"). Semantically similar words with an o vowel (such as two Insular words both meaning horn, Old Irish {{lang|sga|corn}} and Welsh {{lang|cy|corn}}) are probably loanwords from the Latin ({{lang|la|cornu}} for "horn"), but Gaulish toponyms showing the form might hint at the presence of the reflex {{lang|cel-x-proto|korno}} ("horn") in proto-Celtic.<ref name=Nussbaum>{{cite book |last=Nussbaum |first=Alan |date=1986 |title=Head and Horn in Indo-European  |url=https://archive.org/details/nussbaum-head-and-horn-in-indo-european-1986 |location=Berlin/New York |publisher=Walter de Gruyter }}</ref>{{rp|5–6}}<ref name=Matasovich>{{cite book |first=Ranko |last=Matasović |title=Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic |url=https://archive.org/details/matasovic-etymological-dictionary-of-proto-celtic |volume=9 |location=Leiden / Boston |series=Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series |publisher=Brill |date=2009 }}</ref>{{rp|191}}}} rather than {{lang|cel-x-proto|kerno}}.<ref name=LeRoux>{{cite journal |last=Le Roux |first=Françoise |journal=Ogam |volume=5 |date=1953 |pages=324–329 |title=Cernunnos |url=https://bibliotheque.idbe.bzh/data/cle_63/OGAM_Tradition_Celtique_1953_nA_25-26_.pdf#page=10 }}</ref>{{rp|325}}<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|105}}

Weisgerber proposed that the theonym derived from [[proto-Celtic]] {{lang|cel-x-proto|kerno}} ("angle, excrescence"),{{efn|Attested by Old Irish {{lang|sga|cern}} ("angle, corner"), Middle Welsh {{lang|wlm|cern}} ("corner, jaw, cheek, side"), Middle Breton {{lang|xbm|quern}} ("top"), Cornish {{lang|kw|Kernow}} ("[[Cornwall]]").<ref name=Nussbaum/>{{rp|113}}<ref name=Matasovich/>{{rp|215}}}} a reflex of the same proto-Indo-European root.<ref name=deVries/>{{rp|106}}<ref name=Matasovich/>{{rp|203}} Le Roux concurred with Weisgerber; she associated proto-Celtic {{lang|cel-x-proto|kerno}} with the meaning "top of the head", and argued that Cernunnos's name should be interpreted as "the one who has the top of his head like a deer".<ref name=LeRoux/>{{rp|328–329}} Vendryes suggested that the name was cognate with the [[Old Irish]] word {{wikt-lang|sga|cern}} ("hero").<ref name=Vendryes>{{cite book |title=Féil-sgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill: Essays and Studies presented to Professor Eoin MacNeill |editor-last=Ryan |editor-first=John |chapter=Prydain et Britanni |last=Vendryes |first=Joseph |pages=160–166 |location=Dublin |publisher=Three Candles |date=1940 }}</ref>{{rp|162}}