namu

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Attestation: VB·28 (namu/esopnio) (1)
Language: Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class: on

Morphemic Analysis: nam-ū Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: namū
Meaning: "Namu"

Commentary

maybe a hypochorism of a compound of namanto- / -namo- (Lejeune 1971: 50, 62, cf. DLG: 231, Delamarre 2007: 138, 228, GPN: 103-4, 234, 369, Stüber 2005: 68, 96, CCCG: 166, 168, VKG: II 84, 87, 94, Sims-Williams 2003: 62, 200). See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153-4, Stüber 1998: 108

Bibliography

CCCG Henry Lewis, Holger Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition with the supplement of 1961 by Henry Lewis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1989 [reprint of 1974].
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.
GPN David Ellis Evans, Gaulish Personal Names. A Study of Continental Celtic Formations., Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967.