mationa(
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | TI·30 (mationa[) (1) |
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| Language: | prob. Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Case: | nom., dat. |
| Number: | sg. |
| Gender: | fem. |
| Stem Class: | ā, ? |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | mati̯on-ā or mati̯on-ā(i̯) Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /mati̯onā/ or /mati̯onāi̯/ |
| Meaning: | "Mationa" or "to Mationa" |
Commentary
Celt. *mati- or *matu-, cf. Mattius, Matto, Mato, Matonius etc. (Motta 2000: 203, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 136, KGP: 239-240, GPN: 228-232, Motta 1995: 130, cf. Delamarre 2007: 128, 226, DLG: 221).
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
| GPN | David Ellis Evans, Gaulish Personal Names. A Study of Continental Celtic Formations., Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967. |
| KGP | Karl Horst Schmidt, "Die Komposition in gallischen Personennamen", Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 26 (1957), 33–301. |
| Motta 1995 | Filippo Motta, "La Stele di Cureggio", 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, 126-137. |
| Motta 2000 | Filippo Motta, "La documentazione epigrafica e linguistica", in: Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (Eds.), I Leponti tra mito e realtà, Locarno: Gruppo Archeologia Ticino 2000, 181–222. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1978 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Ligure Leponzio e Gallico", in: Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi (Ed.), Lingue e dialetti dell'Italia antica [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 6/1], Roma: Biblioteca di Storia Patria 1978, 131-208. |
