art-

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Type: lexical
Meaning: 'bear'
Language: Celtic
Phonemic analysis: /art/-
From PIE: *h₂rtk̑o-
From Proto-Celtic: *arto-
Attestation: art, artebuθz, artonis

Commentary

Well attested as an onomastic element in Gaulish simplex names and as first element in compound names, see DLG: 55 f., Delamarre 2007: 211 et passim, Matasović 2009 s.v.

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.