li

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Attestation: BG·32 (pi) (1)
Status: uncertain
Language: perhaps Celtic
Word Type: prob. proper noun
Semantic Field: prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories: indeterminable

Morphemic Analysis: unknown
Phonemic Analysis: unknown
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

Possibly an abbreviation of a personal name, though no names in li- are attested in the corpus; see Delamarre 2007: 117–119 for potential Gaulish comparanda.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.