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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'bear'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/art/-
From PIE:	*h₂r̥tk̑o-
From Proto-Celtic:	*arto-
Attestation:	art, artebuθz, artonis

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. art, MW arth, Bret. arzh 'bear'; well attested as an onomastic element in Gaulish simplex names and as first element in compound names, see AcS I: 223–228, KGP: 135, Stüber et al. 2009: 275, Delamarre 2007: 211 et passim, DLG: 55 f., Matasović 2009: 42 f., NIL: 343–345.

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.