aesia

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Attestation:	VA·28.3 (aesia) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg.
Stem Class:	i̯ā
Morphemic Analysis:	aes-(i)i̯-ā
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	'Aesia'

Commentary

Reading uncertain, see the inscription page.

If correct, the sequence is an ā-stem personal name. Celtic comparanda include CIL V 4022 aesius, aesus, aesico, aesicunia (AcS I 53, III 516, Delamarre 2007: 14, 210). The etymology of the base is unclear; Lejeune 1971: 63, n. 196, suggests that aes- < *ais-.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
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.