mationa(
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Attestation: | TI·30 (mationa[) (1) |
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Language: | Celtic |
Word Type: | proper noun |
Semantic Field: | personal name |
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Grammatical Categories: | dat. sg. fem. |
Stem Class: | ā |
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Morphemic Analysis: | mati-on-āi̯ or mantī-on-āi̯ (?) |
Phonemic Analysis: | /matii̯onāi̯/ or /mattii̯onāi̯/ or /mantīi̯onāi̯/ (?) |
Meaning: | 'for Mationa' (?) |
Commentary
The fragmentary form can be tentatively identified as an individual name in the dative mati̯onāi̯ (rather than a patronym mationalāi̯/mationalūi̯ based on its position in the text; see the inscription page for details. The name appears to be an ā-stem derivation of an on-stem, either from the base mat(t)i- (Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 136, Motta 2000: 203) or mantī-.