mationa(

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Attestation:	TI·30 (mationa[) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	dat. sg. fem.
Stem Class:	ā
Morphemic Analysis:	mati-on-āi̯ or mantī-on-āi̯ (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/matii̯onāi̯/ or /mattii̯onāi̯/ or /mantīi̯onāi̯/ (?)
Meaning:	'for Mationa' (?)

Commentary

The fragmentary form can be tentatively identified as an individual name in the dative mati̯onāi̯ (rather than a patronym mationalāi̯/mationalūi̯ based on its position in the text; see the inscription page for details. The name appears to be an ā-stem derivation of an on-stem, either from the base mat(t)i- (cf. esp. mattio and mattonius [Delamarre 2007: 128]; Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 136, Motta 2000: 203) or mantī-.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.