nem-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'sky'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/nem/-
Attestation:	nimonikna

Commentary

Lexically in OIr., OW, OBret. nem 'sky', probably with assimilation of the root-final to the inital consonant < PIE *néb^h-es 'cloud, sky' (see Matasović 2009: 288 f., NIL: 499–501 with n. 9, DLG: 234 f., LEIA: N-8). Gaulish personal names which may be derived from the base include numerous names in nem- such as CIL V 8125.20 nemasi (gen.).

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
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.