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- (cf. esp. mattio and mattonius [Delamarre 2007: 128]; Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 136, Motta 2000: 203) or mantī-.
