vat
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| Attestation: | MI·12 (vat) (1) | ||
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| Language: | prob. Celtic | ||
| Word Type: | prob. proper noun | ||
| Semantic Field: | prob. personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | indeterminable | ||
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| Morphemic Analysis: | unknown | ||
| Phonemic Analysis: | unknown | ||
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) | ||
Commentary
Possibly an abbreviation of a personal name in u̯ati- 'prophet' / u̯atu- 'prophecy' (DLG: 308, Delamarre 2007: 235 et passim) or u̯ad- '?' (see Delamarre 2007: 187), neither of which are otherwise attested in the Cisalpine Celtic corpus. Pauli 1888: 46 and Molinari 1974: 70 compare names in Roman inscriptions from Northern Italy (uatta CIL V 7181, Piemonte; uatia CIL V 5875, Milano).
Bibliography
| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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| 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. |
