art-
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Type: | lexical |
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Meaning: | 'bear' |
Language: | Celtic |
Phonemic analysis: | /art/- |
From PIE: | *h₂r̥tk̑o- |
From Proto-Celtic: | *arto- |
Attestation: | art, artebuθz, artonis |
Commentary
Lexically in OIr. art, MW arth, Bret. arzh 'bear'; well attested as an onomastic element in Gaulish simplex names and as first element in compound names, see AcS I: 223–228, KGP: 135, Stüber et al. 2009: 275, Delamarre 2007: 211 et passim, DLG: 55 f., Matasović 2009: 42 f., NIL: 343–345.
Bibliography
AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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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. |