u̯o-
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| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'under' |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /u̯o/- |
| From PIE: | *(H)upo- 'under' |
| From Proto-Celtic: | *uφo- 'under' |
| Attestation: | kituaretos, uasekia |
Commentary
Lexically in OIr. fo, OW, OBret. guo- etc. 'under', and attested in numerous Gaulish and Insular Celtic personal names. See KGP: 299 f., GPN: 228 f., DLG: 324 f., Delamarre 2007: 236 f. et passim, Meid 2005: 181, Matasović 2009: 396, Zair 2012: 26. On the variant u̯a- in Gaulish see Koch 1992: 477–479, Schrijver 1995: 128–130.
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
