Les noms du compagnon en gaulois

Authors

• Xavier Delamarre

Keywords:

Gaulish, names, epigraphs

Abstract

Namingconstruction in Gaulish is of IE type: a descriptive name in the form of a compound, followed by the patronym. This descriptive nature of names allows us to recover nominal stems of current usage. A certain number of Gaulish names attested in the epigraphic corpus must have had the meaning "companion". Various denominations of companions are found: companion of travel (road), of fate (destiny), of combats, of chants, of looting.