English Explanatory Dictionary

Epona

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. In Gallo-Roman religion, a goddess of fertility and protector of horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules.

Word forms

Epona

Etymology

Ultimately from a suffixed form of Gaulish epos (“horse”), from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.

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