mant-

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Type: lexical
Meaning: 'amount'
Language: Celtic
Phonemic analysis: /mant/-
Attestation: matikios, mationa(

Commentary

Attested as element of personal names, see Delamarre 2007: 226 et passim, identified as *mantī- 'amount' (OIr. méit etc., s. LEIA: M-31 f.) by Schmidt KGP: 290 and Meid 2005: 148; differently Delamarre DLG: 216 (*manti- 'mouth').

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.