u̯es-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'worthy, excellent'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/u̯es/-
From PIE:	*h₁u̯esu- 'good'
From Proto-Celtic:	*u̯esu- 'good'
Attestation:	)peuesa, alkouesi, aśuesa, iailkouesi, uesa?ai, vesia

Commentary

Attested in Gaulish compound personal names as first (uesuauus, unless from *u̯esuā- = OIr. feb 'excellence') and second (segouesus and bellouesus in Livy V, 34, bodiues[i], sunnuuesa) element, and in simplex names (e.g. uesus, uesuccius), see KGP: 294, DLG: 318, Delamarre 2007: 236 et passim. Attested lexically in Insular Celtic (OIr. fíu, W. gwiw, Corn. gwyw 'worthy') (NIL: 253, Matasović 2009 s.v. *wesu-, Zair 2012: 49). See also u̯īs-.

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.