atai

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Attestation: TI·45.2 (aụaị:uesa?aị:pala) (1)
Status: uncertain
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: dat. sg.
Stem Class: ā

Morphemic Analysis: at-āi̯
Phonemic Analysis: /attāi̯/ or /ātāi̯/
Meaning: 'for Ata'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

Personal name in the dative; for the base see at(t)-. Cf. multiple attestations of atta in Delamarre 2007: ?, of which one is a potter's name and thus probably masculine.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.