vesia

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Attestation:	VA·28.3 (aesia) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg.
Stem Class:	i̯ā
Morphemic Analysis:	u̯es-(i)i̯-ā
Phonemic Analysis:	/u̯es(i)i̯ā/
Meaning:	'Vesia'

Commentary

Reading uncertain, see the inscription page.

If correct, the sequence is an ā-stem personal name from the base u̯es- 'worthy', probably hypocoristic. Cf. uesia CIL XII 4292 (Delamarre 2007: 198).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.