ēt-

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Type: lexical
Meaning: 'meadow, pasture, (grazing) land'
Language: Celtic
Phonemic analysis: /ēt/-
From PIE: *pei̯H-tu-
From Proto-Celtic: *ei̯tu-
Attestation: eluveitie, etu

Commentary

Gaulish *ētu- 'meadow, pasture, (grazing) land' ('OIr. íath 'land') is derived from the PIE root *pei̯H- 'swell, be fat' → *pei̯H-tu- (Brugmann 1906: 442, IEW: 793 f., LIV²: 464 f., De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 292, DLG: 168, Matasović 2009 s.v. fētu-; see Irslinger 2002: 166 following Seebold for an alternative etymology).

The word appears as element of personal names (both first and second element of compounds, see DLG: 168, Delamarre 2007: 221 et passim) and, prominently, in the ethnonym helvetii (*elu̯-ēt-ii̯ī) according to Thurneysen's etymology (see eluveitie).

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Bibliography

Brugmann 1906 Karl Brugmann, Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen: Vergleichende Laut-, Stammbildungs- und Flexionslehre nebst Lehre vom Gebrauch der Wortformen der indogermanischen Sprachen. Vol. II: Lehre von den Wortformen und ihrem Gebrauch, Part 1: Allgemeines. Zusammensetzung (Komposita). Nominalstämme, 2nd, extended edition, Strassburg: Trübner 1906.
De Bernardo Stempel 1999 Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen. Stammbildung und Derivation [= Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15], Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
DLG Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.