vesia
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| Attestation: | VA·28.3 (aesia) (1) |
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| Status: | uncertain |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. |
| Stem Class: | i̯ā |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | u̯es-i̯-ā |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /u̯esi̯ā/ |
| Meaning: | 'Vesia' |
Commentary
Reading uncertain, see the inscription page.
If correct, the sequence is an ā-stem personal name from the base u̯es- 'worthy', probably hypocoristic. Cf. uesia CIL XII 4292 (Delamarre 2007: 198).
Bibliography
| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
