lou
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| Attestation: | BG·12 (uol), TI·3 (lou) (2) | ||
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| Status: | probable | ||
| Language: | prob. Celtic | ||
| Word Type: | prob. proper noun | ||
| Semantic Field: | prob. personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | indeterminable | ||
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| Morphemic Analysis: | unknown | ||
| Phonemic Analysis: | unknown | ||
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) | ||
Commentary
Reading uncertain in BG·12, probable in TI·3.
Possibly an abbreviation of a personal name in lou-, e.g. with basis/first element lou̯k- 'bright', louern- 'fox', or lou̯- 'small' (?), or another base of unclear etymology, see Delamarre 2007: 225, DLG: 208 f. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143, comparing loves(i)us, assumes that lou is complete, a hypocoristic on-stem /lou̯ū/.
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
