uesa?ai
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Attestation: | TI·45.2 (aụaị:uesa?aị:pala) (1) |
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Language: | Celtic |
Word Type: | proper noun |
Semantic Field: | prob. patronymic |
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Grammatical Categories: | dat. sg. fem. |
Stem Class: | ā |
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Morphemic Analysis: | u̯es-al-āi̯ (?) |
Phonemic Analysis: | /u̯esalāi̯/ (?) |
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*).