banu̯-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'young pig'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/banu̯/-
From Proto-Celtic:	*banu̯-
Attestation:	φanuaφi

Commentary

The lexical morpheme *banu̯- 'piglet', without an IE connection, is common in Celtic personal names. Cf. GPN: 149, Delamarre 2007: 212 et passim, DLG: 66 f., 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.