mār-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'great'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/mār/-
From PIE:	*moh₁-ro-
From Proto-Celtic:	*māro- 'great'
Attestation:	latumarui

Commentary

Very common in Gaulish onomastics as especially second element of compound personal names (determinative compound 'great in X'), see AcS II: 432 f., KGP: 72–74, 77, 238 f., GPN: 223–228, Meid 2005: 92–122, Delamarre 2007: 226 and passim. Lexically in OIr. már, mór, OW maur, OBret. mor 'great'; ro-adjective from the PIE root *meh₁- 'measure', also continued in Germanic (OHG *māri 'famous' and -mār as second element of compound PNN) and Homeric Greek -μωρος 'great, famous'. See Matasović 2009: 258, LEIA: M-18, DLG: 218 f., Zair 2012: 110.

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.