ass-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	—
Attestation:	azus

Commentary

Attested in Gaulish onomastics as a u-stem assu- (asu-) in RIG L-73 assutalos, atiassu, CIL XIII 10006.8, 100010.182 assutalus, asus, assuius, asunna etc., rarely also o-stem asso-, e.g. assorenus, and occasionally with st, e.g. astuus, also overt tau gallicum in RIIG BDR-02-02 (RIG G-526) αθ̣ουιται (dat.) according to Lejeune 1994: 181 f. (see DLG: 57, Delamarre 2007: 211 et passim). Assumed to be the same element as in diassu-, diastu- = intensive/privative dī- + assu- (diassumarus, diastumar(us), see KGP: 193, GPN: 412, DLG: 144, Delamarre 2007: 219 et passim). Etymology unclear; Delamarre DLG: 57 and 144 (with literature) lists possible input forms involving *[st], *[dst] or *[dt] to account for presumed tau gallicum.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
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.