Aneuniates
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Gallic tribe
The Aneuniates (Gaulish: *Aneuniatis) were a small Gallic tribe dwelling near Lake Como, around present-day Samolaco, during the Roman period.
They are mentioned Aneuniates on an inscription dated to the 2nd century AD and found in Gera Lario.[1][2]
The ethnonym Aneuniates can be derived from the Gaulish aneun- ('inspired') attached to the suffix -ates ('belonging to'), although the etymology of the first element remains unclear.[3][2] Xavier Delamarre has proposed to posit a deity named *Aneunos ('The Inspired'), with Aneuniates as 'those of *Aneunos'.[4]
Geography
References
- ↑ AE 1909:204.
- 1 2 Falileyev 2010, s.v. Aneuniates.
- ↑ Delamarre 2003, p. 49.
- ↑ Delamarre 2019, p. 64.
- ↑ Talbert 2000, Map 19: Raetia.
Bibliography
- Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.
- Delamarre, Xavier (2019). Dictionnaire des thèmes nominaux du gaulois. Ab-/Iχs(o)-. Vol. 1. Les Cents Chemins. ISBN 978-1-7980-5040-8.
- Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN 978-0955718236.
- Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691031699.
