mei

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Attestation: CO·14 (mẹi/ṿạ) (1)
Status: uncertain
Language: unknown
Word Type: undeterminable

Grammatical Categories: indeterminable

Morphemic Analysis: unknown
Phonemic Analysis: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

The form is too short for analysis; possibly an abbreviation. The sequence mei- does not appear in any other inscription; the diphthong /ei̯/ was monophthongised to /ē/ at an uncertain date in Celtic (see meiva).

Corinna Salomon