namu

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Attestation:	VB·28 (namu/esopnio) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	nam-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/namū/
Meaning:	'Namu'

Commentary

on-stem personal name in the nominative. maybe a hypochorism of a compound of namanto- / -namo- (Lejeune 1971: 50, 62, cf. DLG: 231, Delamarre 2007: 138, 228, GPN: 103-4, 234, 369, Stüber 2005: 68, 96, CCCG: 166, 168, VKG: II 84, 87, 94, Sims-Williams 2003: 62, 200). See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153-4, Stüber 1998: 108

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.
Ferrero 1897	Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.