bi-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'strike, hit'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/bi/-
From PIE:	*bʰei̯H-
From Proto-Celtic:	*bi-
Attestation:	φanuaφi

Commentary

Though attested only once in the LexLep corpus so far, the lexical morpheme bi- is common in Celtic compound personal names as second element ('X-striker'). In the Eastern Alpine area, cf. the Noric epithet of Mars latobius *lāto-bii̯os 'striking in fury' (Meid 2005: 54). Cf. Lambert 1994: 35 f., DLG: 75 s.v. -biion, Matasović 2009 s.v. *bi-na-.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.