met-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'reap, cut'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/met/-
From PIE:	*h₂met- 'mow, cut'
From Proto-Celtic:	*met- 'mow, cut, reap'
Attestation:	metalui, metelikna, metelui

Commentary

Verbal root, lexically in MW medi, MBret. midiff 'mow, reap, cut' < *(h₂)met- 'mow, cut', see KP: 483, LIV²: 442, IEW: 703, Matasović 2009: 269. Not well attested in Continental Celtic onomastics, maybe in some of the names in met(t)- in AcS II: 577–580, Delamarre 2007: 133, and see metelui on possible evidence for the derivation metelo- 'reaper'.

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.