uol

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Attestation:	BG·12 (uol), NM·20 (uol) (2)
Language:	prob. Celtic
Word Type:	undeterminable
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	u̯ol(k)- (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/u̯ol/ (?)
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)

Commentary

Reading uncertain in BG·12.

Possibly an abbreviation of a name. See NM·20 for the interpretation as an abbreviation of the ethnonym uolces (base u̯olk-). Otherwise, a personal name in u̯olt- 'hair' (DLG: 327) or u̯olo- is possible (see Delamarre 2007: 237).

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.