dunn-
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Type: | lexical |
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Meaning: | 'brown' |
Language: | Celtic |
Phonemic analysis: | /dunn/- |
From PIE: | *dʰus-no- 'smoky' |
From Proto-Celtic: | *dusno- 'dark, brown' |
Attestation: | tunal, tuni |
Commentary
Lexically in OIr. donn 'dun, brown', MW dwn 'brown' < PC *dusno- < *dʰus-no- 'smoky' (Matasović 2009: 109, Stifter 2024: 12, LEIA: D-171, IEW: 268–271); in Gaulish onomastics in names like CIL XIII 2129 dunni, dunnio, CIL V 5618 dunnonis (gen.) (AcS I: 1374, Delamarre 2007: 91) according to Delamarre DLG: 154.
Bibliography
AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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. |