u̯al-
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| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'ruler, prince' |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /u̯al/- |
| From PIE: | *u̯l̥Ho- 'ruler' |
| From Proto-Celtic: | *u̯alo- 'ruler' |
| Attestation: | akluśamoualos |
Commentary
Well attested root *u̯elH- 'be strong, be powerful' in Indo-European (IEW: 1111 f., LIV²: 676) and Celtic (Matasović 2009 s.v. *wlati-, *wal-na-); the nominal o-stem in Celtic only in Insular and Continental onomastics (DLG: 306, Matasović 2009 s.v. *walo-) in simplex names and as second, less frequently first element in compounds.
Bibliography
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
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