eri-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'around, near'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/eri/-
From PIE:	*perh₂-i 'around'
From Proto-Celtic:	*φeri- 'around'
Attestation:	eripoχios

Commentary

Preverb (OIr. er-, ir-, Bret. er-), attested only rarely in Gaulish onomastics, viz. in compounds, beside eripoχios, in the potter's name eridubnos (Osw. 116), and arguably in a number of hypocoristic names in eri- (AcS I: 1463, Delamarre 2007: 97). See DLG: 166, Lejeune 1971: 56 f., n. 152, Schmidt KGP: 210 f. (who doubts that eri- 'around, near' can be used in intensifying function). Cf. are-.

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.