arsmatia

Umbrian

Alternative forms

  • arsmatiam

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to arsmor. The scholar Nicholas Zair suggests that arsmor (“cattle”) was transformed into an adjective *arsmā-to- (“having cattle”), which was substantivized into *arsmāt-iȋo-.

Adjective

arsmatia (accusative singular) (late Iguvine)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. ritual, official
    2. of or pertaining to cattle or the herder

References

  • Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary
  • Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium‎[1], Baltimore: American Philological Association
  • Nicholas Zair (2024) Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology‎[2], volume 1, Stockholm University Press, →ISBN, page 258
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