aesia
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| Attestation: | VA·28.3 (aesia) (1) |
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| Status: | uncertain |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. |
| Stem Class: | i̯ā |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | aes-(i)i̯-ā |
| Phonemic Analysis: | unknown |
| Meaning: | 'Aesia' |
Commentary
Reading uncertain, see the inscription page.
If correct, the sequence is an ā-stem personal name. Celtic comparanda include CIL V 4022 aesius, aesus, aesico, aesicunia (AcS I 53, III 516, Delamarre 2007: 14, 210). The etymology of the base is unclear; Lejeune 1971: 63, n. 196, suggests that aes- < *ais-.
Bibliography
| AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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| 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. |
