-et-

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Type:	derivational
Function:	agentive
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	-/et/-
From PIE:	*-(e)t-
From Proto-Celtic:	*-et-
Attestation:	aśkoneti, aśkonetio, kiketu, pirauiχeś, piretos, plialeθu, sekezos, seχeθu

Commentary

The Celtic languages have a comparatively large number of formations of the nominalising PIE suffix *-t- with ablaut in the suffix -et-/-ot- (always with one grade generalised in Celtic). See Irslinger 2002 passim, esp. 46 f. In Gaulish, the e-grade suffix is attested in a handful of PNN (e.g., *cinget- 'warrior' in vercingetorix, see king-) and ethnonyms (e.g. nemetes; Lambert 1994: 34). Gaulish -et- is considered to have agentive function by, e.g., Hamp 1988: 54; see Irslinger 2002: 67 f. for details. See also Repanšek 2014: 245–251.