Matronae Abiamarcae
The Ambiamarcae or Ambiomarcae and Abiamarcae is the nickname of matrons , which is passed down through four inscriptions from the 3rd century.
nickname
The epithet varies in the inscriptions in the first link with the fugue vowels a and o (Ambi-a, Ambi-o) and with final suffixes -ae and -is (-marc-ae, -marc-is) to the full forms Ambiamarcae and Ambiomarcis . With Gutenbrunner, the epithet applies in research as a Germanic-Celtic hybrid formation from the Celtic element in the first link Ambi- and the Germanic element -marc with the meaning "those who live around the brands" or "those who live on both sides of the brands".
See also
literature
- Brigitte Galsterer, Hartmut Galsterer : The Roman stone inscriptions from Cologne. IKöln². (= Cologne research. Volume 10). with the participation of Stefan Breuer, Bettina Goffin, Michael Herchenbach, Stephan Meusel, Sabine Schmall and Stefan Schrumpf. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4229-2 , pp. 141-142.
- Siegfried Gutenbrunner : The Germanic god names of the ancient inscriptions. Max Niemeyer, Halle / S. 1936, pp. 169-170, 216.
- Max Ihm : The mother or matron cult and its monuments. In: Bonner Jahrbücher. Yearbooks of the Society of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland . 83 (1887), p. 151. ( Internet Archive )
- Hermann Reichert : Lexicon of Old Germanic Names , Volume I, Part 1: Text Volume. (= Thesaurus Palaeogermanicus . 1,1). With the collaboration of Wilibald Kraml. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0931-8 , p. 418.
- Karl Horst Schmidt : The composition of the Gallic personal names. In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 1957, p. 123 ( fee required from De Gruyter Online).
- Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X , pp. 1, 166-167.