rēd-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'riding, driving'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/rēd/-
From PIE:	*rei̯dʰ-o- 'riding, driving'
From Proto-Celtic:	*rēd-o- 'riding, driving'
Attestation:	retalos

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. ríad 'riding, driving, voyage' (verb -réid 'ride, drive'), Gaul. *rēdā > MLat. rēda 'four-wheeled cart', see Matasović 2009: 307. Gaulish personal names which contain the base include, e.g., CIL V 3931 redonius (Verona), eporedorix, see AcS I: 1452 f., II: 1096–1105, KGP: 257, GPN: 242 f., DLG: 256, 315, Delamarre 2007: 229 et passim, Meid 2005: 114.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
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.