3786.
de Bernardo Stempel
(Patrizia): Spuren gemeinkeltischer Kultur im Wortschatz: 3. Von Göttinen und Frauen.
In
ZCP 49–50
(1997), pp. 96–98.
Interprets OIr.
Banba
as from *
ban-w-yā
(< *
g
w
n̥(H)-w-yā
, cf. W
banw
‘woman, female’), and suggests that it is the Goidelic counterpart of the Celtic goddess surmised from the personal names W
Banon
and Gaul.
Banona
.
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Banba