namu
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | VB·28 (namu/esopnio) (1) |
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| Language: | Lepontic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | on |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | nam-ū Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | namū |
| Meaning: | "Namu" |
Commentary
maybe a hypochorism of a compound of namanto- / -namo- (Lejeune 1971: 50, 62, cf. DLG: 231, Delamarre 2007: 138, 228, GPN: 103-4, 234, 369, Stüber 2005: 68, 96, CCCG: 166, 168, VKG: II 84, 87, 94, Sims-Williams 2003: 62, 200). See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153-4, Stüber 1998: 108
Bibliography
| CCCG | Henry Lewis, Holger Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition with the supplement of 1961 by Henry Lewis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1989 [reprint of 1974]. |
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| 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. |
| GPN | David Ellis Evans, Gaulish Personal Names. A Study of Continental Celtic Formations., Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967. |
