međ-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'judgement'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/međ/-
From PIE:	*med-tu- 'judgement'
Attestation:

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. mes(s) 'judgement', tu-abstract from the PIE root *med- 'measure', see LEIA M-42, Matasović 2009: 269, Irslinger 2002: 116 f. Common in Gaulish onomastics in spellings with overt tau gallicum and with ⟨ss⟩, see AcS II: 575–577, Rhŷs 1914: 41 f., KGP: 240 f., GPN: 367 f., DLG: 223, Stüber 2005: 94, Delamarre 2007: 227 et passim. The commonness of derivations with /i/ in the stem indicates the existence of a ti- beside the tu-derivation in Gaulish (GPN: 36, DLG: 223; Latin influence according to Schmidt KGP: 240).

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.