kott-
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| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'old' |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /kott/- |
| From Proto-Celtic: | *kott- |
| Attestation: | esanekoti, χoθioi, χoθios |
Commentary
Frequent base of simplex PNN in Continental Celtic, e.g. cottus, cottius, cottilus, and as second element in the ethnonym atecotti (KGP: 184, GPN: 186 f., Lochner von Hüttenbach 1989: 61 f., DLG: 127, Delamarre 2007: X, Meid 2005: 191 f., Stüber et al. 2009: 260); lexically in MBret. coz and OCorn. coth. Probably non-IE (DLG: 127, Matasović 2009 s.v. *kotto-).
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
