gi̯am-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'winter'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/g(i)i̯am/-
From PIE:	*gʰi̯em- 'winter'
From Proto-Celtic:	*gi̯em- 'winter'
Attestation:	ciami, kia

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. gaim, OW gaem, MW gaeaf, OCorn. goyf, OBret. guoiam etc., all 'winter'; see Schrijver 1995: 101, 108 ff., 279 f., Stüber 2005: 100, De Vaan 2008: 284, Matasović 2009 s.v. *gyemo-, NIL: 162–165 (with n. 7) for discussions of the developments in detail. The Coligny calender attests the Gaulish name of the seventh month giamonis or giamonios (< *gʰi̯em-on-, DLG: 179, NIL: 163–169 with n. 38). Common element in Gaulish personal names, e.g. giamilos RIG 4, no. 179–180, giamos, giama, giamius, giamillus, giamatus, giamonius etc. (AcS I: 2017–2019, Lochner von Hüttenbach 1989: 82, DLG: 178 f., Stüber 2005: 68, 70, Delamarre 2007: 222 et passim, Stüber et al. 2009: 257, 272), also Celtib. iamius (Villar & Prósper 2005: 266) and Ogam gamicunas (McManus 1991: 105).

Corinna Salomon, Michela Vignoli

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIIC	R[obert] A[lexander] S[tewart] Macalister, Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, Dublin: Stationery Office 1945–1949.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
De Vaan 2008	Michiel De Vaan, Etymological dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages [= Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7], Leiden, Boston: Brill 2008.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.