art-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'bear'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/art/-
From PIE:	*h₂rtk̑o-
From Proto-Celtic:	*arto-
Attestation:	art, artebuθz, artonis

Commentary

Attested only once in the Cisalpine area so far, in a compound name which may well be "Noric" rather than Cisalpine Gaulish. Lexical PC, Gaul. artos 'bear' is well attested as an onomastic element in Gaulish simplex names and as first element in compound names. Cf. DLG: 55 f., Delamarre 2007: 211 et passim, Matasović 2009 s.v. The original stem vowel in the attested name is uncertain; Eichner in Eichner et al. 1994: 137 suggests that its first element is not lexical arto-, but the Gaulish theonym artio. Cf. Meid 2005: 252 f. on the Pannonian/"Illyrian" onomastic element art-.

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.