i̯ou̯ink-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'young'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/i̯ou̯ink/-
From PIE:	*h₂i̯uh₃n̥k̑o- 'young'
Attestation:	iouiku

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. óac, W ieuanc, OCorn. iouenk, Bret. yaouank, all 'young'; see LEIA: O-3, DLG: 191 f., Matasović 2009: 436 f. From PIE *h₂i̯uh₃n̥ko- 'young' from the root *h₂ei̯-u- 'life(time)'; see NIL: 277–287 and esp. n. 285, n. 33 on the Celtic forms. Well attested as an onomastic element in Gaulish, e.g. iouincatus, iouincillus, iouincissius, also without ⟨u⟩ ioincus, ioincorix, ioincionius, see KGP: 227, Delamarre 2007: 111 f. On consistent [i] instead of [a] in the Gaulish forms see McCone 1996: 50, Stüber 2005: 76, and Delamarre DLG: 191 f., who proposes an alternative preform *h₂i̯uh₃enko- for i̯ou̯ink-.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.