nemet-
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Type: | lexical |
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Meaning: | 'sanctuary' |
Language: | Celtic |
Phonemic analysis: | /nemet/- |
From PIE: | *nem-eto- 'precinct' |
From Proto-Celtic: | *nemeto- 'sacred precinct' |
Attestation: | nemetieś |
Commentary
OIr. ne(i)med (m) 'sanctuary, privilege' < PIE *nem-eto- 'precinct' < √*nem- 'allocate' (LEIA N-9, Matasović 2009: 288); for the Gaulish attestations of the lexeme (RIIG VAU-13-01 (RIG G-153) νεμητον [acc., Vaison-la-Romaine], RIIG VAU-14-01 (RIG G-154) νεμετος [Villelaure]) and onomastic forms see AcS II: 708–713, KGP: 248, GPN: 234, n. 3, DLG: 233 f., Meid 2005: 112 f., Stüber 2005: 99, Delamarre 2007: 228 et passim, De Simone 1980: 199 f.
Bibliography
AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
De Simone 1980 | Carlo de Simone, "Gallisch '*Nemeti̯os – etruskisch Nemetie", Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 94 (1980), 198–202. |
DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |