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== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
An element ''nant''-, variously as an ''i''-, ''u''- or ''o''-stem, is attested in numerous Gaulish toponyms (e.g. ''nantiacum'' > ''Nantey'') and hydronyms, in the ethnonym ''nantuates'', the theonym {{bib|AE}} 1907: 201 {{tr|lat|nantosuelte}} (dat.), and a few personal names such as {{bib|CIL}} XIII 5485 {{tr|lat|nantiorix}}, {{bib|RIIG}} [https://riig.huma-num.fr/documents/ALL-01-01 ALL-01-01] ({{bib|RIG}} L-6) {{tr|lat|na⁽nt⁾o⁽n{t}⁾icn(os)}}. There are also lexical Gaulish attestations, notably {{bib|RIG}} L-49 {{tr|lat|nantou}}, L-69 div., and in Enderlicher's glossary 613.8 ''nanto'' gl. ''ualle'', ''trinanto'' gl. ''tres ualles'' (see {{bib|AcS}} II: 684–688, {{bib|GPN}}: 236 f., {{bib|DLG}}: 231 f., {{bib|Delamarre 2007}}: 228 et passim, {{bib|Lambert 1994}}: 203 | An element ''nant''-, variously as an ''i''-, ''u''- or ''o''-stem, is attested in numerous Gaulish toponyms (e.g. ''nantiacum'' > ''Nantey'') and hydronyms, in the ethnonym ''nantuates'', the theonym {{bib|AE}} 1907: 201 {{tr|lat|nantosuelte}} (dat.), and a few personal names such as {{bib|CIL}} XIII 5485 {{tr|lat|nantiorix}}, {{bib|RIIG}} [https://riig.huma-num.fr/documents/ALL-01-01 ALL-01-01] ({{bib|RIG}} L-6) {{tr|lat|na⁽nt⁾o⁽n{t}⁾icn(os)}}. There are also lexical Gaulish attestations, notably {{bib|RIG}} L-49 {{tr|lat|nantou}}, L-69 div., and in Enderlicher's glossary 613.8 ''nanto'' gl. ''ualle'', ''trinanto'' gl. ''tres ualles'' (see {{bib|AcS}} II: 684–688, {{bib|GPN}}: 236 f., {{bib|DLG}}: 231 f., {{bib|Delamarre 2007}}: 228 et passim, {{bib|Lambert 1994}}: 203). With regard to the glosses, the ''o''-stem and the ''u''-stem as in ''nantuates'' 'those of the valley', L-49 ''nantou''[''s''] (gen.sg.) 'of the valley' were connected with MW ''nant'', OCorn. ''nans'' 'valley, watercourse, stream', which do not allow conclusions about the stem vowel, and derived from the PIE root *''nem''- 'bend, incline' (''tu''-abstract or ''to''-participle, conceivably coexisting in Gaulish, cf. {{bib|Stüber 2005}}: 110) by {{bib|KGP}}: 247 f. and {{bib|GPN}}: 236 f. {{bib|Hamp 1976}}: 14 keeps the ''u''/''o''-stem separate from an ''i''-stem especially in personal names, which he connects with OIr. ''néit'' 'battle' as per {{bib|LEIA}}: N-7 (see also {{bib|Irslinger 2002}}: 226, {{bib|Matasović 2009}}: 283). | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:47, 29 October 2024
| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'valley' |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /nant/- |
| From PIE: | *nm̥-tu/o- 'slope'/'sloping' |
| From Proto-Celtic: | *nantu/o- 'valley' |
| Attestation: | natom |
Commentary
An element nant-, variously as an i-, u- or o-stem, is attested in numerous Gaulish toponyms (e.g. nantiacum > Nantey) and hydronyms, in the ethnonym nantuates, the theonym AE 1907: 201 nantosuelte (dat.), and a few personal names such as CIL XIII 5485 nantiorix, RIIG ALL-01-01 (RIG L-6) na⁽nt⁾o⁽n{t}⁾icn(os). There are also lexical Gaulish attestations, notably RIG L-49 nantou, L-69 div., and in Enderlicher's glossary 613.8 nanto gl. ualle, trinanto gl. tres ualles (see AcS II: 684–688, GPN: 236 f., DLG: 231 f., Delamarre 2007: 228 et passim, Lambert 1994: 203). With regard to the glosses, the o-stem and the u-stem as in nantuates 'those of the valley', L-49 nantou[s] (gen.sg.) 'of the valley' were connected with MW nant, OCorn. nans 'valley, watercourse, stream', which do not allow conclusions about the stem vowel, and derived from the PIE root *nem- 'bend, incline' (tu-abstract or to-participle, conceivably coexisting in Gaulish, cf. Stüber 2005: 110) by KGP: 247 f. and GPN: 236 f. Hamp 1976: 14 keeps the u/o-stem separate from an i-stem especially in personal names, which he connects with OIr. néit 'battle' as per LEIA: N-7 (see also Irslinger 2002: 226, Matasović 2009: 283).
Bibliography
| AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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| AE | Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–. |
| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
| 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. |
