art-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'bear'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/art/-
From PIE:	*h₂rtk̑o-
From Proto-Celtic:	*arto-
Attestation:	art, artebuθz, artonis

Commentary

Well attested as an onomastic element in Gaulish simplex names and as first element in compound names, see DLG: 55 f., Delamarre 2007: 211 et passim, Matasović 2009 s.v.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
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.