u̯ađ-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'servant'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/u̯ass/-
From PIE:	*upo-sth₂o- 'standing under, subordinate'
From Proto-Celtic:	*uφosto- 'servant'
Attestation:	kuaśoni, uasekia, uasi, uosiu(

Commentary

From PIE *upo-sth₂o- lit. 'standing under'; the preverb also in Gaulish u̯o-. Lexically in OIr. foss, W gwas 'servant' etc. and as a loan from Gaulish into Latin (MLat. uassus, uassallus); well attested as a personal name element in Gaulish (e.g. CIL XIII 6071 uassorix, 7754 dagouassus, 11382 uassillo, XII 5701 uassedo). See DLG: 307 f., Matasović 2009: 404, NIL: 638, 648, n. 36, AcS III: 119–123, Delamarre 2007: 235 et passim, KGP: 285, Meid 2005: 209 f. On [u̯o] > [u̯a] see Koch 1992: 478 f., Schrijver 1995: 121, 128 and u̯o-.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
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.