bīt-

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Type: lexical
Meaning: 'struck'
Language: Celtic
Phonemic analysis: /bīt/-
From PIE: *bhiH-to- 'struck'
From Proto-Celtic: *bīto- 'struck'
Attestation: atbiti

Commentary

to-adjective from the PIE root *bhei̯H- 'strike' (OIr. -bíth 'struck'; cf. bī- 'strike'); not clearly in evidence in the Gaulish onomastic record – maybe in some names with second element -bito-, usually listed sub bitu- 'world, age, life'?

Corinna Salomon