ag-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'battle'; 'drive, lead'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/ag/-
From PIE:	*h₂eg̑- 'drive, lead'
From Proto-Celtic:	*ag(-o)- 'battle'; 'drive, lead'
Attestation:	akitu, akiui

Commentary

The verbal root *ag-e/o- is continued in Insular Celtic (OIr. ag- etc. 'drive, conduct; walk', see KP: 189–193, LEIA: A-22, Matasović 2009: 27). Its attestation in Continental Celtic is very uncertain, but a derived noun ago- 'battle' (OIr. ág with uncertain stem class) is posited for Gaulish personal names such as CIL V 5340 comago (Como), agomarus (potter's name), see DLG: 35, Delamarre 2007: 210 et passim, KGP: 119, GPN: 300, NIL: 267–277.

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.