ana

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Attestation: NM·9 (ana / tikou) (1)
Status: probable
Language: unknown
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Morphemic Analysis: ana- Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: ana
Meaning: abbreviation of a name "Ana..."?

Commentary

Lejeune (1971: 128) presumes in NM·9 two abbreviated legends, where ana possibly refers to an ethnic name. (Lejeune 1971: 128-129) The sequence ana appears also in anareiuśeos (NO·21.1), anarekartos or anarekartoi (NM·2), anask (VA·20), and the variant reading anatikou (NM·9).

Bibliography

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)
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