dūn-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'hillfort, mountain'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/dūn/-
From PIE:	*dʰuh₂-no- 'enclosure'
From Proto-Celtic:	*dūno- 'enclosure, fort'
Attestation:	tunal, tuni

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. dún, MW din 'city, fort', OBret. din gl. arx, Gaul. dūnum (e.g. Enderlicher's glossary dunum enim montem, Lambert 1994: 203) < PIE *dʰuh₂-no- 'enclosure' (Matasović 2009: 108, LEIA: D-222 f., Watkins 1991, Zair 2012: 116, IEW: 260). Attested very frequently as second element of Gaulish toponyms, and likely in any number of personal names containing an element dun- (AcS I: 1372–1377, DLG: 154–156, Delamarre 2007: 220 et passim, KGP: 200 f., Meid 2005: 107 f.).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
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.