u̯int-
| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /u̯int/- |
| Attestation: | snaśiouitos, uitili, uitilios |
Commentary
An element u̯int- is attested in a number of Gaulish personal names, e.g. CIL XIII 5870 uintili (cogn., Langres), AE 1900, no. 105 uintelius (St. Maurice), AE 1996, no. 965 uintinus (Soleilhas), CIL V 2197 uintina (Venice) (cf. also V 7100 uentiniae from Torino). On the theonym u̯inti̯us, which is attested in south-eastern France (CIL XII 2561 uintio au[g(usto)], 2562 deo uintio polluci, 2553 aug(usto) uint(io), 3 marti uintio), and its unclear etymology see Falileyev 2015: 172–176 with literature; also from Narbonnensis the theonym uinturis (e.g. CIL XII 1341 uinturi). Conceivably < *u̯ent- with raising of /e/ to /i/ before /nC/ (cf. snaśiouitos); *u̯ento- 'wind' (W gwynt etc.) is formally obvious, but dubious semantically. Irslinger 2002 lists no t-derivation in Celtic from the root PIE *u̯enH- 'love'; a tā-derivation *u̯entā 'place'(?), attested in Brittonic toponyms (W gwent, in cadwent 'battle(ground)'), is reconstructed from different roots by Irslinger 2002: 346 (PIE *u̯en- 'vanquish') and Schumacher KP: 368 (*h₁u̯en- 'put').
Bibliography
| AE | Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–. |
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| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
| Falileyev 2015 | Alexander Falileyev, "Where linguistics fails: towards interpretations of some divine names in the Roman Danubian Provinces", in: Livio Zerbini (ed.), Culti e religiosità nelle province Danubiane. Atti del II convegno internazionale, Ferrara 20–22 Novembre 2013, Bologna: I Libri di Emil 2015, 167–176. |
