rat-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'favour, boon, fortune'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/rat/-
From PIE:	*pr̥h₃-to- 'provided, bestowed'
From Proto-Celtic:	*rato- 'that which is bestowed, a favour'
Attestation:	ateratos

Commentary

to-adjective from the PIE root *perh₃- 'provide' (LIV²: 474 f.). Lexically in OIr. rath 'favour, boon', W. rhad, MCorn. ras 'grace, favour', possibly Gaul. ratet, rat (RIG L-98), cf. Irslinger 2002: 272, DLG: 255 (with literature on the irregular(?) short /a/). Element in numerous Gaulish personal names, e.g. suratus, ceniratus, dioratus, -a, ratumedia (attesting a formation with -tu-?), ratulla, see KGP: 256 f., GPN: 240 f., DLG: 255, Stüber 2005: 104, Delamarre 2007: 229 et passim.

Corinna Salomon

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.