meiva

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Attestation: none (0)
Status: uncertain
Language: unknown
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. fem.
Stem Class: ā

Morphemic Analysis: mei̯v-ā
Phonemic Analysis: /mei̯ā/ (?)
Meaning: 'Meiva'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

Interpreted as a feminine personal name by Morandi 1999: 180, who compares (n. 93) the toponym mevania (AcS II: 621, a variant of mona) and a meagre crop of names in mei- in AcS II: 530. No good comparanda in Celtic, where /ei̯/ > /ē/; if read correctly, maybe not etymologically Celtic.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.