Anextiomarus (Gaulish: Anextlomāros, 'Great Protection') is a Celtic epithet of the sun-god Apollo recorded in a Romano-British inscription from South Shields, England. A variant form, Anextlomarus, appears as a divine style or name attested in a fragmentary Gallo-Roman dedication from Le Mans, France. Anextlomarus is also attested as a Gaulish man's father's name at Langres, and a feminine divine form, Anextlomara, appears in two other Gallo-Roman dedications from Avenches, Switzerland.
Name
[edit]The Gaulish theonym Anextlomāros means 'Great Protection', that is to say 'he who is in Great Protection'. It stems from the noun anextlo- ('protection'; cf. Old Irish anacul) attached to māros ('great').[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Markey 2003, pp. 295–296.
- ^ Delamarre 2003, pp. 49, 218–219.
- ^ Lambert 2008, pp. 91–92.
- Bibliography
- Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.
- Lambert, Pierre-Yves (2008). "Gaulois Solitumaros". Études celtiques. 36 (1): 89–101. doi:10.3406/ecelt.2008.2303.
- Markey, Tom L. (2003). "Gaulish Anextlomārus Revisited". Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics. 116 (2): 295–301. ISSN 0935-3518. JSTOR 40849195.
