karnitus

Attestation:	NO·19 (autesai kar / nitus petua[), NO·21.1 (tanotaliknoi / kuitos / lekatos / anokopokios / setupokios / esanekoti / anareuiśeos / tanotalos / karnitus) (2)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	verb
Grammatical Categories:
Person:	3rd
Number:	pl.
Tense:	past
Morphemic Analysis:	karni-t-ū-s Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis:	karnitūs Attention, needs to be checked!
Meaning:	they erected, put

Commentary

This form is an attestation for a yet unexplained 3rd person plural ending of the past tense karnitu. (see Eska & Evans 2009: 37, Eska 2007-8: 108-109, Eska 2009: 24, Eska 1990: 81, 84-85, Lejeune 1971: 46-47, De Hoz 1995: 61-63)

Bibliography

De Hoz 1995	Javier De Hoz, "Is -s the mark of the plural of the preterite in the Gaulish verb?", in: Joseph Francis Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (Eds.), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 58-65.
Eska & Evans 2009	Joseph Francis Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (Eds.), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition [= Routledge Language Family Series], London - New York: Routledge 2009.
Eska 1990	Joseph Francis Eska, "The so-called weak or dental preterite in Continental Celtic", Historische Sprachforschung 103 (1990), 81-91.
Eska 2007-8	Joseph Francis Eska, "Remarks on the 3. plural preterite in -us in Continental Celtic", Die Sprache 47/1 (2007-8), 108-119.
Eska 2009	Joseph Francis Eska, "The emergence of the Celtic languages", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (Eds.), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition [= Routledge Language Family Series], London - New York: Routledge 2009, 22-27.
Lejeune 1971	Michel Lejeune, Lepontica, Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" 1971. (reprint of the article "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine", Études Celtiques 12/2, 1970-1, pp. 357-500)