Lemavi

Latin

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from Proto-Celtic *lēmo- (“elm”) + *-awo-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁leym- (“elm”),[1] meaning the "Elm People" or similar.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.ma.wiː/, [ˈɫɛ.ma.wiː]

Proper noun

Lemavī m pl (genitive Lemavōrum); second declension

  1. A Celtic tribe of Gallaecia whose chief town was Dactonium

Declension

Second declension.

Case Plural
nominative Lemavī
genitive Lemavōrum
dative Lemavīs
accusative Lemavōs
ablative Lemavīs
vocative Lemavī

Descendants

References

  • Lemavi in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.
  1. ↑ Cf. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 237.
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