medi̯-

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Type: lexical
Meaning: 'middle'
Language: Celtic
Phonemic analysis: /med/-
From PIE: *medʰi̯o- 'middle'
From Proto-Celtic: *medi̯o- 'middle'
Attestation: meśiolano

Commentary

Attested predominantly in toponyms in Old Celtic; lexically in OIr. mide, OBret. med. See AcS II: 497–524, KGP: 241, DLG: 222, Delamarre 2007: 226, Matasović 2009: 262, LEIA: M-50, IEW: 706, NIL: 465 f.

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.