ag-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'battle'; 'lead, do'(?)
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/ag/-
From PIE:	*h₂eg̑- 'drive, lead'
Attestation:	akitu, akiui

= Commentary

PC *ago- 'battle' in personal names (DLG: 35, Delamarre 2007: 210 et passim, LEIA: A-22 f.) and in Insular Celtic verbs OIr. ag- etc. 'drive, conduct; walk' (KP: 189–193, LEIA: A-22, Matasović 2009: 27); the attestation as a verb in Continental Celtic is very uncertain.

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.