minerua

Paelignian

Alternative forms

  • mineruai

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *Menerwā, from Proto-Indo-European *ménos. Alternatively, the rhotacism may indicate that the term was borrowed from Latin.

Proper noun

minerua f (dative singular?)

  1. Minerva

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 380-381
  • Rex Wallace (1984), The Sabellian Languages‎[1] (quotation in Undetermined; overall work in English), page 79
  • Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 21
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