u̯o-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'under'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/u̯o/-
From PIE:	*(H)upo- 'under'
From Proto-Celtic:	*uφo- 'under'
Attestation:	kituaretos, uasekia

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. fo, OW, OBret. guo- etc. 'under', and attested in numerous Gaulish and Insular Celtic personal names. See KGP: 299 f., GPN: 228 f., DLG: 324 f., Delamarre 2007: 236 f. et passim, Meid 2005: 181, Matasović 2009: 396, Zair 2012: 26. On the variant u̯a- see Koch 1992: 477–479, Schrijver 1995: 128–130.

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.