tau
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| Attestation: | BG·29 (tau) (1) | ||
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| Language: | perhaps Celtic | ||
| Word Type: | prob. proper noun | ||
| Semantic Field: | prob. personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | indeterminable | ||
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| Morphemic Analysis: | unknown | ||
| Phonemic Analysis: | unknown | ||
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) | ||
Commentary
Possibly an abbreviation of a personal name. Morandi 2003: 126 (no. 2) suggests names in taut- or taur- (specifically the Celtic or Ligurian ethnonym taurini), both of which have Latinised pronunciation/spelling (of tou̯t- and taru̯- 'bull', respectively; cf. maybe pau). Potential comparanda with Celtic /au̯/ include Gaul. taua, tauius, tauena, tauillia, associated with Gaul. *tau̯o- 'silent, calm' by Delamarre DLG: 293 (also Delamarre 2007: 234). There are no other names in tau- attested in the Cisalpine Celtic corpus.
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
