artonis

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Attestation:	VB·25 (luto/artonis:f) (1)
Language:	Celtic
adapted to:	Latin
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg.
Stem Class:	cons. stem
Morphemic Analysis:	arton-is
Phonemic Analysis:	artonis
Cognates in:	Artio, Artos
Meaning:	"(son) of Artu"?

Commentary

arto- meaning "bear" (Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: 264, cf. NIL: 343-345, Stüber 1998: 94, CCCG: 25, VKG: 89, IEW: 875, Delamarre 2007: 27, 211, DLG: 55-56, Matasović 2009: 42, Stüber et al. 2009: 34, 51, 259, 275, Sims-Williams 2003: 34, 108, De Vaan 2008: 645)

Bibliography

CCCG	Henry Lewis, Holger Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition with the supplement of 1961 by Henry Lewis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1989 [reprint of 1974].
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
De Vaan 2008	Michiel De Vaan, Etymological dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages [= Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7], Leiden, Boston: Brill 2008.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.