ag-
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| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'battle'; 'lead, do'(?) |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /ag/- |
| From PIE: | *h₂eg̑- 'drive, lead' |
| Attestation: | akitu, akiui |
= Commentary
PC *ago- 'battle' in personal names (DLG: 35, Delamarre 2007: 210 et passim, LEIA: A-22 f.) and in Insular Celtic verbs OIr. ag- etc. 'drive, conduct; walk' (KP: 189–193, LEIA: A-22, Matasović 2009: 27); the attestation as a verb in Continental Celtic is very uncertain.
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. |
