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Attestation: BI·4 (esonius:urenti/akitu:esonius/ueriounos) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: unclear

Grammatical Categories: unclear

Morphemic Analysis: aged or agi-t
Phonemic Analysis: /agidū/ or /agitū/
Meaning: 'Akitu' or 'arranged'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the unclear text structure. The word akitu may be an on-stem individual name in the nominative with base agid- or acid-, see aged- and cf. the Gaulish names agidius, agidia, agidillus, acidi, acidus (Delamarre 2007: X, Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 47). Alternatively, the form could be analysed as a 3sg. t-preterite (cf. karnitu) from an otherwise unattested verbal base ag- or ak-, the best candidate being PIE *h₂eg̑- 'drive, lead' → 'conduct, arrange; put, do' with similar semantical development as in Latin (agō); the Celtic branch only has nominal OIr. ág (< *ago-) 'battle'.

David Stifter, Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013 Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013.
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.