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Attestation: VC·1.2 (akisios:arkatokok/materekos:toṣ́o/kote:aṭom:teuoχ/tom:koneu) (1)
Language: Cisalpine Gaulish
Word Type: noun

Grammatical Categories: acc. sg. masc.
Stem Class: o

Morphemic Analysis: at-om Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: a(n)tom
Meaning: "border"

Commentary

probably < *anto- meaning "border", in VC·1.2 it corresponds to the Latin finis (campo) (cf. Pisani 1979: 50, Uhlich 2007: 387). See also Eska 2000: 200

Bibliography

Eska 2000 Joseph Francis Eska, "Phonology meets syntax in Naintré (Vienne)", Historische Sprachforschung 113 (2000), 199-209.