āk-
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| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'fast' |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /āk/- |
| From PIE: | *HeHk̑- 'fast' |
| From Proto-Celtic: | *āk- 'fast' |
| Attestation: | akiui |
Commentary
The u-adjective āku (PIE *HeHk̑-ú-) 'fast' is attested lexically in the privative compound OW di-auc etc. 'slow, sluggish' (*dī-āku-, see NIL: 200 f. with n. 5), which also appears in Gaulish personal names (DLG: 144, Delamarre 2007: 85). The simple adjective, which is not continued lexically, appears in names like acus (potter's name), RIG M-11 acutios (coin legend), probably also as acc- with hypocoristic gemination (e.g. AE 1998, 659 accon[is]), see AcS I: 16, 31, Delamarre 2007: 10 f., 209 et passim.
Bibliography
| AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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| AE | Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–. |
| 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. |
