au̯-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'grandson, descendant'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/au̯/- or /āu̯/
From PIE:	*h₂eu̯h₂o- 'grandfather'
Attestation:	auai, aui

Commentary

The lexeme *au̯os 'grandson, descendant' (OIr. aue, Ogam AVI [gen.] < *au̯i̯os etc., s. DLG: 60 s.v. aua, Matasović 2009: 49 f., LEIA: A-103 f., Zair 2012: 250 on possible ā; the absence of a -i̯-suffix in Gaulish is surprising) is attested in Gaulish in RIIG VAU-05-05 (RIG G-121) αουα (Cavaillon) and possibly in RIG L-131 auo (dat.?), onomastically e.g. in aua, auonus (s. Delamarre 2007: 212 et passim). (Differently Meid 2005: 218, who connects these names with the verbal root *au̯e- (OIr. -oí, -oat 'protect'.)

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.