uesa?ai

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Attestation: TI·45.2 (aụaị:uesa?aị:pala) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: prob. patronymic

Grammatical Categories: dat. sg. fem.
Stem Class: ā

Morphemic Analysis: u̯es-al-āi̯ (?)
Phonemic Analysis: /esalāi̯/ (?)
Meaning: 'for the daughter of Ues°'

Commentary

Feminine proper name in the dative; the form can with reasonable certainty be amended to uesalai, i.e. a patronym (or possibly metronym) formed with the suffix -al- from a personal name u̯esos* (or, if metronymic, u̯esā*).

Corinna Salomon