u̯rīt-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'found'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/u̯rīt/-
From PIE:	*u̯reh₁-to- 'found'
From Proto-Celtic:	*u̯rīto- 'found'
Attestation:	leukururitu

Commentary

From the PIE root *u̯reh₁- 'to find' (IEW: 1160, LIV²: 698); the to-adjective in Celtic lexically in OIr. fríth 'find, foundling' (Irslinger 2002: 252). As an onomastic element in Ogam CIIC 155 akevritti, Gaulish ateuritus, -a, couritus 'X-found', and probably in monothematic and hypocoristic names such as CIL XII 3478 urittonis (dat.), RIIG BDR-12-06 (RIG G-68) ουριττακος, BDR-11-34 (G-62) ουριτ[ (KGP: 301, GPN: 388 f., DLG: 329, Stüber et al. 2009: 266, Delamarre 2007: 31, 76, 206). Forms with tau gallicum (e.g. GAR-14-01 (G-217) ουριθθουριγου) are unlikely to belong here, see Stifter in RIIG.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIIC	R[obert] A[lexander] S[tewart] Macalister, Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, Dublin: Stationery Office 1945–1949.
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.