atlatu

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Attestation: BS·16 (atlatụ) (1)
Status: probable
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. animate
Stem Class: on

Morphemic Analysis: ad-lāt (?)
Phonemic Analysis: /adlatū/ (?)
Meaning: 'Atlatu'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the reading.

on-stem personal name, could be a hypocoristic from a compound in ad- or ate-lātu/o-, though no comparanda. Alternatively derived with -at- (but from what? isolated atlus?). Cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1973: 165, Morandi 2004: 677.

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