nat-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'poem'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/nat/-
From PIE:	*(s)n̥h₁-tu-/ah₂ 'spun (thing)'
From Proto-Celtic:	*natu- 'poem'
Attestation:	natoris

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. nath 'poem', MW nad 'poem, dirge' < *natu-, *natā, according to Lambert 1995: 168 also in Larzac 1a8 duscelinatia. On the etymology see LEIA: N-4, Matasović 2009: 284 f., Irslinger 2002: 151 f., Zair 2012: 65. Delamarre DLG: 232 and 2007: 228 adduces a number of personal names with an element nat-, whose stem class cannot be determined, and which may in many cases be explained otherwise, viz. as variant of gnāto- or nant- (cf. KGP: 89 and natoris).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.