So I'm trying to render the Irish name Ó Catháin in Primitive Irish, but my knowledge of Irish in general is pretty weak. According to Wiktionary, the ó is from PI avi 'grandson', the cath is from PI cattu 'battle', and the -áin is from the PI -agni, genitive of the diminutive -agnas.
Firstly, where does the double tt in cattu come from? Apparently it is from Proto-Celtic *katus, and I would have thought a geminate would be resistant to lenition - am I wrong or is it only orthographic or is Wiktionary just wrong? Secondly, as cattu is a u-stem, I'm not sure how the diminutive suffix should attach to it. Cattagnas, cattuagnas, cattovagnas or something else?
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