mag-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'youth'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/mag/-
Attestation:	mako(

Commentary

The u-stem magu- 'youth, boy, servant' is attested lexically in OIr. mug 'boy, servant' etc. (see DLG: 214, LEIA: M-70 f.), and in numerous Gaulish personal names, e.g. cf. e.g. RIIG VAU-05-05 (RIG G-121) μαγουρειγι, CIL XIII 5803 magunia (Langres), see AcS II: 385 f., KGP: 235, GPN: 222, Delamarre 2007: 225 et passim. Cognate with Germanic forms (Goth. magus 'boy' etc.) and probably Av. magava- 'unmarried', but the etymology is ultimately unclear (cf. Matasović 2009: 274, IEW: 696).

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.