dunn-

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Type:	lexical
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.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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