bii̯-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'striker'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/bi/-
From PIE:	*bʰiHo- 'striker'
From Proto-Celtic:	*bii̯o- 'striker'
Attestation:	φanuaφi

Commentary

From the PIE root *bʰei̯H- 'strike' (verbal root *bī-), attested in Celtic compound personal names as second element 'X-striker', e.g. the Noric epithet of Mars Latobius *lāto-bii̯os 'striker in fury' (Meid 2005: 54). Cf. KP: 226–232, Lambert 1994: 35 f., DLG: 75 s.v. -biion, Zair 2012: 259, Matasović 2009: 65 f. 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.