atekua

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Attestation:	VB·27 (aśounị/atekua) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg.
Stem Class:	ā
Morphemic Analysis:	ate- or ad-tek-u-ā
Phonemic Analysis:	/ateku(u̯)ā/
Meaning:	'Atekua'

Commentary

The same name is attested in Latin script: see atecua

• Delamarre 2007: 29
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153
• De Bernardo Stempel 1990: 31

Lejeune 1971: 49, 59, fn. 167, 69) 2) This attested form could have preserved pie */kw/ and could be a variant of atepa without the mutation k^w > p (cf. Motta 2000: 210, Eska 2006: 232 fn. 7).

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Eska 2006	Joseph F. Eska, "The genitive plural desinence in Celtic and dialect geography", Die Sprache 46/2 (2006), 229–235.