Matronae Ahinehiae

The Ahinehiae are matrons that are only passed down through an inscription from Blankenheim , district of Euskirchen , which is now lost .

"Matronis / Ahinehiabus / Atticianus / [S] peratus / l (ibens) m (erito)"

The inscription is read differently, especially when it comes to the matron's name. Clauss-Slaby read in the series by Géza Alföldy , who followed the reading by Alexander von Wiltheim : Atrenivabus , or modified as Atirienivabus . Gutenbrunner notes that this reading (which Max Ihm rejects) would still be linked to related documents without comparison. The common reading Ahine (h) iae comes from him .

The Germanic name is possible from the tribe * aχa to Old High German aha = "water, river" as a continuation of Germanic * aχwō = "water" to the Indo-European word * h ₂ ák ^w ah ₂ = "water". The root of the word is also in the matron s name of the Matronae Almaviahenae , to which the New High German documents Ache and Aue correspond. The name is topical in nature and suggests the Ahinehiae as presumable protectors of a waterhole or generally as river or water deities. They also belong to a group of matrons that are interpreted as river and water deities, such as the Ahveccaniae , Fernovineae , Nersihenae , Udravarinehae and Vacallinehae .

See also

• List of matron names

literature

• Siegfried Gutenbrunner : The Germanic god names of the ancient inscriptions. Max Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale 1936, p. 184 f.
• Günter Neumann : Germanic god names in Latin inscriptions. In: Astrid van Nahl, Heiko Hettrich (Hrsg.): Günter Neumann: Name studies on Old Germanic (= supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 59). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020100-0 , p 236 ( with costs Germanic Altertumskunde Online at de Gruyter ).
• Hermann Reichert : Lexicon of the old Germanic names . Volume I, Part 1: Text volume. (= Thesaurus Palaeogermanicus . Volume 1,1). With the collaboration of Wilibald Kraml. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0931-8 .
• 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. 6, 15-16.

Remarks

1. ↑ CIL 13, 8845
2. ↑ Géza Alföldy : Epigraphisches aus dem Rheinland II. In: Epigraphische Studien , Volume 4, 1967, p. 12 No. 3.