uenia
| Attestation: | NO·18 (metelui:maeśilalui:uenia:metelikna:aśmina:krasanikna) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. fem. |
| Stem Class: | i̯ā |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | u̯en-(i)i̯-ā |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /u̯en(i)i̯ā/ |
| Meaning: | 'Uenia' |
Commentary
Probably an ā-stem personal name, short or hypocoristic from the base u̯eni- 'family member, friend', see Herbig 1906: 197, n. 2, Danielsson 1909: 18 f., Rhŷs 1913: 58, Pedersen 1921: 41, Lejeune 1971: 73 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 55, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 149, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 175, Morandi 2004: 582. Negligible Vetter 1927: 12 f., who proposed that uenia was a lexeme 'wife' < PIE *gu̯enih₂ 'woman' with *gu̯ > u̯ as in Latin (also Pisani 1964: 284 f., no. 122), cf. Lejeune ibid. and Hamp 1974: 194. McCone 1993: 243–245 interprets uenia as a lexeme (collective) u̯eni-ā 'family, offspring' as in OIr. fine, which is formally possible, though the attestation of a name uenu at Giubiasco supports the analysis of uenia as a personal name (cf. Eska 1995b: 131–134, who notes an attestation of uenia in Turkey CIL III 6861).
Lejeune 1971: 51, n. 126, 62, n. 190, 74, Hamp 1974: 14, Motta 2000: 213, AcS III: 168-173, CIIC 214, KGP: 289-290, GPN: 277-279, DLG: 313, Delamarre 2007: 194, 195, 235-6, McCone 1996: 105, Matasović 2009: 413-4, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 371, IEW: 1147, Stüber 2005: 63, 91, De Vaan 2008: 661).
See also Eska & Evans 2009: 35; Pellegrini 1983: 36 (< *gwenia); Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 149; McCone 1993.
Bibliography
| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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| Danielsson 1909 | Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909. |
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
| Eska 1995b | Joseph F. Eska, "Another look at Lepontic uenia", Beiträge zur Namenforschung 29/30 (1994/1995), 129–136. |
