Aunios
Latin
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Ons ("Aunios"), as seen from the mainland
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from Proto-Celtic *au- (“away, off”),[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ni.os/, [ˈäu̯niɔs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ni.os/, [ˈäːu̯nios]
Proper noun
Aunios f sg (genitive Auniī); second declension
- An island off the coast of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis; now Ons Island, after Medieval Latin Aunes
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Aunios |
| Genitive | Auniī |
| Dative | Auniō |
| Accusative | Aunion |
| Ablative | Auniō |
| Vocative | Aunie |
Descendants
- Galician: Ons
References
- Aunios in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
- E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aunios (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236355> [accessed: 01 April 2018]
- Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University, s.v. Aunios.
- Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 60
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