enu

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Attestation: VB·3.5 (enu) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg.
Stem Class: on

Morphemic Analysis: en (?)
Phonemic Analysis: /en(n)ū/ (?)
Meaning: 'Enu' (?)

Commentary

The short sequence is most likely an on-stem personal name in the nominative or an abbreviation. A hypocoristic en(n)ū can be formed from various names in en- or end-; see Delamarre 2007: 95 f.

See also Rhŷs 1914: 26, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 145, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 164, Morandi 2004: 552.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Birkhan 2005 Helmut Birkhan, "UINOM NAŚOM", in: Franziska Beutler, Wolfgang Hameter (Eds.), "Eine ganz normale Inschrift" ... Vnd ähnLiches zVm GebVrtstag von Ekkehard Weber. Festschrift zum 30. April 2005 [= Althistorisch-Epigraphische Studien 5], Wien: Eigenverlag der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Archäologie 2005, 223-228.
Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.