āk-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'fast'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/āk/-
From PIE:	*HeHk̑- 'fast'
From Proto-Celtic:	*āk- 'fast'
Attestation:	akiui

Commentary

The u-adjective āku (PIE *HeHk̑-ú-) 'fast' is attested lexically in the privative compound OW di-auc etc. 'slow, sluggish' (*dī-āku-, see NIL: 200 f. with n. 5), which also appears in Gaulish personal names (DLG: 144, Delamarre 2007: 85). The simple adjective, which is not continued lexically, appears in names like acus (potter's name), RIG M-11 acutios (coin legend), probably also as acc- with hypocoristic gemination (e.g. AE 1998, 659 accon[is]), see AcS I: 16, 31, Delamarre 2007: 10 f., 209 et passim.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
AE	Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–.
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.