namu

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Attestation: VB·28 (namu/esopnio) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class: on

Morphemic Analysis: nam
Phonemic Analysis: /namū/
Meaning: 'Namu'

Commentary

on-stem personal name in the nominative. maybe a hypochorism of a compound of namanto- / -namo- (Lejeune 1971: 50, 62, cf. DLG: 231, Delamarre 2007: 138, 228, GPN: 103-4, 234, 369, Stüber 2005: 68, 96, CCCG: 166, 168, VKG: II 84, 87, 94, Sims-Williams 2003: 62, 200). See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153-4, Stüber 1998: 108

Bibliography

CIL Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
DLG Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.
Ferrero 1897 Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.