uisa

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Attestation:	MI·3 (uisa) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg.
Stem Class:	ā
Morphemic Analysis:	u̯īs-ā or u̯iđ-ā
Phonemic Analysis:	/u̯īsā/ or /u̯issā/
Meaning:	'Uisa'

Commentary

Short ā-stem personal name; probably hypocoristic. Cf. the names in uis- in Delamarre 2007: 202; the base (or first element of the compound name on which the hypocoristic is based) is best identified as u̯īsu- 'good', though, considering the late date of the document, u̯iđu/o- 'known' with the tau gallicum cluster simplified to /ss/ cannot be exluded (cf. Molinari 1974: 72 f.).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.