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Attestation: BG·17 (ạịụṭ[) (1)
Status: probable
Language: perhaps Celtic
Word Type: prob. proper noun
Semantic Field: prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories: indeterminable

Morphemic Analysis: ai̯u-?- (?)
Phonemic Analysis: /ai̯ut/- (?)
Meaning: 'Aiut['

Commentary

See BG·17 on problems with the reading.

Initial aiu- could be the Celtic morpheme ai̯u- 'eternity, longevity', which appears as the base of Celtic individual names (see DLG: 36, Meid 2005: 213 f., Delamarre 2007: 210 et passim; complete collection and discussion in Zeidler 2013), but no derivations with t-suffixes or compounds with a second element beginning in t are attested.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
DLG Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.