ret-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'run, race'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/ret/-
From PIE:	*-ret-o- 'run'
From Proto-Celtic:	*-reto- 'run, race'
Attestation:	kituaretos, retalos

Commentary

In Gaulish onomastics as second element of compound personal names (e.g. adretios, ueretus, uoretovirius), uncertain in simplex names (retecius?), see KGP: 258, GPN: 249–251, DLG: 33 s.v. adret-, Meid 2005: 115 f., Delamarre 2007: 230 et passim. Lexically in OIr. -red, MW rhed 'run', OBret. red 'run, race', etc. Thematic formation from the PIE root *ret- 'run' which is particular to Celtic (see NIL: 575). Cf. rit- with zero-grade from the same root. Variants with tau gallicum in the root auslaut (reds-, rett-, ress-, rest- etc.) are also from the same root, but with dental suffix (see NIL: 576).

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.