aśmina

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Attestation:	NO·18 (metelui:maeśilalui:uenia:metelikna:aśmina:krasanikna) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. fem.
Stem Class:	ā
Morphemic Analysis:	ad-mīn-ā
Phonemic Analysis:	/admīnā/
Meaning:	'Aśmina'

Commentary

ā-stem personal name formed with preverb ad- from the base mīn- 'mild, gentle' (lit. 'very gentle'), as in the name of the British king Adminius (Suetonius, Cal. 44, Cassius Dio 59.25.1–5a); Delamarre 2007: 12 notes ateriae admin in Rome (CIL VI 12594). See Lejeune 1971: 58, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 149 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 176, Uhlich 1999: 280, Uhlich 2007: 376, Gambari 2019b: 99, pace Rhŷs 1913: 58; on san for */d/ see Stifter 2010: 370 f., 2024b: 131.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.