brog-

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Type: lexical
Meaning: 'border, territory'
Language: Celtic
Phonemic analysis: /brog/-
From PIE: *morĝ-
From Proto-Celtic: *mrogi-
Attestation: broχθui

Commentary

Lexical Gaul. brogi- 'border, territory' (Lambert 1994: 190) is well attested as an onomastic element in Gaulish. In Pannonia, cf. brogimarus/brogimara (Meid 2005: 99 f.). Cf. GPN: 158–160, DLG: 91, Delamarre 2007: 214 et passim, Matasović 2009 s.v. *mrogi-.

Attested only once (uncertainly) in the Cisalpine area so far, in a compound name which probably belongs to an Ambi-Danubian Celtic (Tauriscan?) rather than Cisalpine Gaulish filum.

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.