met-
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Type: | lexical |
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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'.
Bibliography
AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |